The detection for metadata version does not follow what is specified in PEP 241 and PEP 314.

Specifically, the following fields are being sent as version 1.0 when they are not allowed as per PEP 241:

* Classifier
* Download-URL

Thanks for the report. I’ll look into this shortly in distutils2 and see if it applies to distutils too (not sure it implements PEP 345).

Here is a simple patch, that sets metadata version in PKG-INFO to 1.1, if finds classifier or download_url parametres in setup. If it's any good, I'll try to write a test. If not, I'll be happy to get some advice on how to provide a better one.

Thanks for your help.  Tests would be very much appreciated; we don’t strictly follow the test-before-code method, but in this case it’s the best method to make sure we comply with the PEP: I can review the test against the PEP, then check if the unpatched code fails, apply a patch and check that it works.

I'll get down to it.

Patch with tests. Hope this is enough.

Bump! How about applying this patch, Eric? Or maybe there is something else, that needs to be done. If so, I'll be happy to do it.

Could you port the patch to distutils2?  I should have told so sooner, it’s the process we follow (more info on http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs).

Sure :-)

Here is patch for distutils2. Or maybe you would prefer a patch made by hg export?

Diffs or full changesets are fine.  I’m putting this on standby until distutils2 is fully merged into the standard library and we have a clear workflow from packaging to d2 to d1.

Bump! How about commiting this patch, Eric?

“I’m putting this on standby until distutils2 is fully merged into the standard library and we have a clear workflow from packaging to d2 to d1.”

I’ll look into this shortly.

New changeset e5c1de856828 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2':
Fix determination of Metadata version (#8933).  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e5c1de856828

New changeset 70298cdc48cd by Éric Araujo in branch 'default':
Merge fix for #8933 from 3.2
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/70298cdc48cd

New changeset ca21a47b1ec2 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default':
Fix determination of Metadata version in packaging (#8933).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ca21a47b1ec2

New changeset 4b72d56cf42f by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7':
Fix determination of Metadata version (#8933).  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4b72d56cf42f

It was very easy to verify your patch: PEP 314 lists the new fields.

For packaging (distutils2), I thought the fix would be less easy: I believed that all fields in _314_MARKERS would cause i conflict if used together with 345 fields, but as it turns out they don’t.  I’ll leave it at that for now, but I really want to rework the best_version-related functions to make them easier to grasp.

Thanks for the patches and bumps!

Fixed in distutils2 in b9ca25b3254e.