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authorChris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com>2012-11-14 20:36:53 (GMT)
committerChris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com>2012-11-14 20:36:53 (GMT)
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Backport from 3.2: update PyPI docs regarding listing versions (issue #16400).
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst b/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
index 1498394..9fc18c1 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/packageindex.rst
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ the web interface. They may also designate other users as Owners or Maintainers.
Maintainers may edit the package information, but not designate other Owners or
Maintainers.
-By default PyPI will list all versions of a given package. To hide certain
-versions, the Hidden property should be set to yes. This must be edited through
-the web interface.
+By default PyPI displays only the newest version of a given package. The web
+interface lets one change this default behavior and manually select which
+versions to display and hide.
.. _pypirc:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6f1d66e..c96ea91 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -558,6 +558,9 @@ Tools/Demos
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
+ PyPI displays.
+
- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.