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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 08:47 PM, Brian May wrote:
>
>>in one case this is because upstream have only supplied a *.whl
>>file on Pypi.
>
> I'm *really* hoping that the PyPA will prohibit binary wheel-only uploads.

I'm not sure why they should prohibit binary wheel-only uploads. A
company may wish to publish a binary wheel of a tool and only that (a
wheel for Windows, OS X, different supported linux distributions,
etc.). If they do, that's their prerogative. I don't think there's
anything that says Debian (or Ubuntu) would then have to package that.

PyPI is not just there for downstream, it's there for users too
(although the usability of PyPI is not exactly ideal).