> the full METADATA format is documented in the pre-JSON revision of PEP 426.
Can you confirm which exact revision in the PEPs repo you mean? I could guess at 0451397. That version does not refer to a field "Requires" (rather, the more recent "Requires-Dist"). Your conversion function reads the existing PKG-INFO, updates the Metadata-Version, and adds "Provides-Dist" and "Requires-Dist". It does not check whether the result conforms to that version of the PEP. For example, in the presence of "Requires" in PKG-INFO, you add "Requires-Dist", possibly leading to an ambiguity, because they sort of mean the same thing but could contain conflicting information (for example, different version constraints). The python-dateutils wheel which Jim referred to contained both "Requires" and "Requires-Dist" fields in its METADATA file, and, faced with a metadata set with both fields, the old packaging code used by distlib to handle the different metadata versions raised a "Unknown metadata set" error. In the face of ambiguity, it's refusing the temptation to guess :-) If the conversion function adds "Requires-Dist" but doesn't remove "Requires", I'm not sure it conforms to that version of the PEP. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
