I think we all agree we should try and remove dead links or at least mark them as such.
I don't know who "we" is that should try to remove dead links, and whose dead links. I certainly don't agree that I (as a PyPI operator) should remove any links on any package (except for legal or moral reasons).
Google/wikipedia/download.com/etc wouldn't serve dead links in search results and I don't think we should treat PyPI as the Python Packaging Archive.
Why not? People certainly use it as an archive - and the same people suggesting
that PyPI should host all files also insist that old releases should never be deleted from PyPI (making it an archive).
I don't know how that can be done for contact email addresses but any url pypi points to (package host or website) should be checked once in a while imho.
Feel free to do so, and to then contact the package authors to update their release pages. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
