On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Fabio Tranchitella <fabio@tranchitella.eu> wrote:

... things changed now: both 3.4.3 and 3.5.0 are visible; this morning when I checked, only 3.4.3 was visible, and thus my buildbot warned me that some dependencies in the ZTK were unsatisfied (and buildout tried to download 3.4.3 instead of 3.5.0).

What? setuptools and zc.buildout only use the simple view of packages based on http://pypi.python.org/simple/ and then linking to http://pypi.python.org/simple/zope.contenttype. This page always shows all releases and doesn't care about the visibility status setting. The PyPi pages are only for humans looking at packages. If your buildbot warns or downloads 3.4.3 then there's something very funny going on with your buildbot. The current way PyPi shows packages to humans is obviously not optimal, but not doing the tedious extra work and twiddling around with those visibility status settings hardly counts as messing up. I'm not aware of any release policy that requires us to do this extra step. Hanno