pip does not find recent versions of launchpadlib

[Sheila Miguez]

This fails.

pip wheel -v "launchpadlib>=1.9.12"

you can see the verbose trace from that, and finally,

  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement launchpadlib>=1.9.12 (from versions: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.6.0)

This happens even when you use --allow-external. When releases are published, the convention is to push tarballs to pypi. You can also provide download links, and something weird is happening with the download links for launchpadlib.

[Sheila Miguez (codersquid)]

I had some confusion with the order of options to pass to pip (see explanation here https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2471 )

This works like I'd expect.

pip wheel "launchpadlib>=1.9.12" -v --allow-unverified launchpadlib --allow-external launchpadlib

Still, I would consider it a nice to have for launchpadlib to follow modern pip conventions.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

I've uploaded launchpadlib 1.10.2's tarball to PyPI. pip recently changed to not follow external links by default.