SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

[Kei Kebreau]

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Hello Guix,

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. I'm not sure why this has
happened, as the recommended version on the SGE-Pygame website is still
1.5.1. This gives me two questions:

1. Do we have a protocol for dealing with this sort of issue?

2. As I've had no luck searching on my own, where can one keep track of
the reasons behind changes like this on PyPI?

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Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> 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?

> I'm not sure why this has happened, as the recommended version on the
> SGE-Pygame website is still 1.5.1. This gives me two questions:

Indeed:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix refresh python-sge-pygame
gnu/packages/game-development.scm:279:13: warning: 1.5.1 is greater than the latest known version of python-sge-pygame (1.5)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> 1. Do we have a protocol for dealing with this sort of issue?

No.

> 2. As I've had no luck searching on my own, where can one keep track of
> the reasons behind changes like this on PyPI?

No idea.  That’s a weird situation!

Ludo’.

Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

[Kei Kebreau]

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi!
>
> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> 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.

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Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> 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’.

Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

[Kei Kebreau]

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> 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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