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An issue tracker for the problems in packaging

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-10-12 · latest 2026-09-08

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2020 (3)
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  1. …probing the filesystem, a CLI argument, an environment variable, or whatever folks come up with for https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/215 . The "if: ... import" laziness-defeating clause only applies to your stub module,…
    comment by zbentley · 2026-09-08 · in Working to Make Python Lazy
  2. …zip archives, which the pip package implements. The real bootstrapping issue I've heard about is https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/342 , but this affects very few people — basically, Linux distro maintainers who want to…
  3. …/www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/#migration-advice [1] https://discuss.python.org/c/packaging/14 [2] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems
    comment by BerislavLopac · 2021-02-17 · in What’s New in Python 3.10
  4. Yes... that's exactly what I was referring to. The problem is this: https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/328
    comment by cozzyd · 2020-09-30 · in Python 3.9 is around the corner
  5. …really go down the rabbit hole trying to figure out where the wheel+Alpine problem should be fixed. https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/69 is a newer bug that is tracking this. Python relies on the "manylinux" specification (…
  6. …in the work to chip at and fix the issue[1]. [0] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/37 [1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/69
  7. …valuable. For example, in python's PIP (and apparently in NPM too), the filenames are never reused: https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/74 Developer's website may change at any time, and even go back-and-forth between good…
    comment by theamk · 2019-11-09 · in Curl to shell isn't so bad
  8. …see [1], specifically the comment at [2]. [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html [1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/60 [2] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/60#issueco...
    comment by di · 2018-10-18 · in Python's New Package Landscape
  9. …problem. There was also no notification of the impending blackout on python.org. [2] [1]: https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/130 [2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/751800/