SIP creates incorrect Python wheel metadata

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sat Feb 27 10:58:29 GMT 2021


On 27/02/2021 04:05, Chih-Hsuan Yen wrote:
> Hi PyQt developers,
> 
> I noticed my PyQt wheel is generated with incorrect metadata. The same
> issue occurs in official PyQt wheels, too. For example, in
> PyQt6-6.0.2.dist-info/WHEEL from the official PyQt 6.0.2 wheel [1],
> there is a line
> 
> Root-Is_Purelib: false
> 
> The key should be Root-Is-Purelib instead of Root-Is_Purelib [2]. It
> seems the incorrect key is from [2].
> 
> Such an issue prevents me from installing the wheel using
> python-install, which requires Root-Is-Purelib to be present [4].
> Could you update sip to use the correct key?

Fixed in the next snapshot.

Thanks,
Phil


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