0.77 release tarball broken: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version about sshuttle

[jonathanunderwood]

OK, so basically moving to using setuptools_scm means that the release tarballs created by github are broken. On the other hand, cloning the git repo and doing a python setup.py build sdist produces a tarball which works fine, by virtue of having the version information available in the PKG_INFO file.

[jonathanunderwood]

It seems to me the easiest way to fix this issue would be to make tarball releases available via PyPi as the canonical location for sources, rather than the github releases.

[brianmay]

Probably. The PyPi releases are also signed by me too, another advantage I think. Unfortunately I forgot to sign the 0.77 release, and it won't let me fix it up. I tried deleting version 0.77 and re-uploading it, however it won't let me upload this version anymore.

Submitting dist/sshuttle-0.77.tar.gz to https://pypi.python.org/pypi
Upload failed (400): This filename has previously been used, you should use a different version.
error: Upload failed (400): This filename has previously been used, you should use a different version.

So I suspect I will have to do a release of 0.78 to fix this. Will look at doing this tomorrow.

[jonathanunderwood]

Great. I don't know if you're aware, but the 0.77 tarball doesn't actually show up on the PyPi page as a download, as far as I can see.

[brianmay]

Yes, that was the result of me deleting it and not being able to upload it again :-(

[jonathanunderwood]

Ahh, right!

On the bright side, I've now moved Fedora to this codebase (it was stuck on the 2012 old codebase due to lack of package maintenance), so hopefully that'll give the code some extra exposure.

[brianmay]

Great! Good to hear. Unfortunately this package was neglected for a while.

[brianmay]

Have released 0.77.1. PyPI should be fixed now. readthedocs has problems, am inclined to think that is readthedocs problem.

[brianmay]

Ok if I close this now?

[jonathanunderwood]

Yes, sorry, I meant to report back: I am now happily using the tarball from PyPi (0.77.2) which builds fine for the Fedora packages. Thanks for this.