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Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI


From: Kei Kebreau
Subject: Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:07:07 -0400
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems that our
>>>> sge-pygame package is failing to build because the package version on
>>>> PyPI has downgraded from 1.5.1 to 1.5.
>>>
>>> How can that downgrade lead to a build failure of our package though?
>>>
>>
>> Our sge-pygame definition uses the source code from PyPI, not from GNU
>> Savannah and its mirrors where the project seems to be hosted. Because 
>> version
>> 1.5.1 is no longer available from PyPI servers, our package fails to
>> build.
>>
>> I can change the definition to get the tarball from Savannah and its
>> mirrors because we already do that for python-xsge, a similar package by
>> the same developer.
>
> Ah, got it.
>
> Well, I suggest you should do whichever looks most sensible to you.  If
> the downgrade on PyPI was motivated, but we should probably follow
> suite.  Otherwise, we could simply use the 1.5.1 tarball from Savannah.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.

For any who may be following this thread, I've elected to use the 1.5.1
tarball from Savannah. The code change is in commit
7f652029908f23d85629e2932cc70585ba3e8a1b.

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