New submission from Andrew Pinkham: The new warehouse uses the author_email field to create a mailto link. Donald Stufft recommended leaving out the author_email field while still specifying the author field should a maintainer wish to have their name associated without their email.
Conversation with Donald: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2155 Unfortunately, specifying author but not author_email causes the `setup.py check` command to throw an error. "check: missing meta-data: if 'author' supplied, 'author_email' must be supplied too" I would like to remove that check from being performed given the recommended fix for warehouse. The logic that performs this check is currently in the distutils check command. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/distutils/command/check.py Additionally, AFAICT, it is impossible to disable the metadata check in distutils. I would also like to add a negative option to allow the metadata check to be skipped. ---------- components: Distutils messages: 299436 nosy: dstufft, jambonrose, merwok priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Change metadata handling in check command versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31073> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
