[Zope-dev] Re: bad "zope.size" to remove from PyPI

[Benji York]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen
<philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
>>
>> could someone remove this package from the PyPI :
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.size/3.4dev-r73090
>>
>> This is an empty development version, considered more recent by PyPI than
>> the latest released version 3.4.0. (which is r78211)
>
> Done.
>
> In case anybody's wondering how this complies with our "no removal of any
> release whatsoever" policy [1], be assured that a 3.4dev-r73090 thing isn't
> a release by our standards. This version number not only contains the 'dev'
> marker, meaning it must have come from a development branch (possibly the
> trunk), it also contains the -rXXX suffix meaning it was made right from a
> subversion checkout without having created a tags first (why else would you
> want to include the revision number).

Still, it's likely that someone was using it and their buildouts are now
broken.  We should have instead generated a proper release with a higher
version number and left the dev release alone.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation