Re: Plan to upload all packages still using Alioth in Maintainer/Uploaders

2021-08-14 Thread Brian Thompson
On 0813, Sandro Tosi wrote: >Hello, >a long time ago, we decided to stop using Alioth for the team email >address in Maintainer/Uploaders fields, and onovy mass-committed this >change to our repo; several of our packages (736, according to [1]) >are still using Alioth. > >[1] https://lintian.debian

Re: [RFC] DPT Policy: Canonise recommendation against PyPi-provided upstream source tarballs

2021-06-25 Thread Brian Thompson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 07:01:39PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Does PyPi provide immutable releases? From experience, I can tell you that yes, releases cannot be overwritten, but they can be "yanked". Pypi states that a yanked release is: "A release that is always ignored by an installe