project name transformed upon upload

[devpi-bot]

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/devpi/issue/45
• Originally reported by: @lbrack
• Originally created at: 2013-08-22T02:06:34.704

We came across a strange issue when uploading release files where the name contains _ in the name (in this case the name is gti_utils)

The setup file looks like this:

#!python

    setup(
            # Package name
            name              = 'gti_utils',
            version           = __version__,
            
            # Information about what needs to be packaged
            package_dir       = {'':'src'},
            packages          = find_packages('src'),
            scripts           = [],

The actual package name is gti_scutils. If I generate the package manually, I do get the right file::

#!bash

$ python setup.py sdist
running sdist
running egg_info
writing src/gti_utils.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to src/gti_utils.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to src/gti_utils.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to src/gti_utils.egg-info/entry_points.txt
reading manifest file 'src/gti_utils.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'src/gti_utils.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
...
Writing gti_utils-0.3.0rc/setup.cfg
Creating tar archive
removing 'gti_utils-0.3.0rc' (and everything under it)

But if I perform an upload with devpi I endup with the release file gti_utils-0.3.0rc registered under gti-utils. Devpi also creates an empty project with the appropriate name gti_utils.

When listing the index we find out this:

#!bash

$ devpi list
list result: http://devpi-eu.dolby.net/lpbrac/dev/
dolby-commander
dolby_commander
gti-utils
gti_utils
$ devpi list gti-utils
list result: http://devpi-eu.dolby.net/lpbrac/dev/
lpbrac/dev/gti_utils/0.3.0rc/gti_utils-0.3.0rc.tar.gz
(gti_utils)lpbrac@lpbrac-ubuntu-vm:~/p4ws/main/qa/tools/gti_utils$ devpi list gti_utils
list result: http://devpi-eu.dolby.net/lpbrac/dev/

The release file gti_utils-0.3.0rc.tar.gz (note the _) can be listed with gti-utils while gti_utils returns nothing.

Finally note the following. I can remove gti-utils but can't delete gti_utils as shown below:

#!bash
$ devpi remove gti-utils
About to remove the following release files and metadata:
   lpbrac/dev/gti_utils/0.3.0rc/gti_utils-0.3.0rc.tar.gz
Are you sure (yes/no)? yes 
$ devpi remove gti_utils
nothing to delete
$ devpi list 
list result: http://devpi-eu.dolby.net/lpbrac/dev/
dolby-commander
dolby_commander
gti_utils

[devpi-bot]

Original comment by @hpk42

Seems like we need to give name mangling/normalization more scrutiny. It looks like incomplete normalization. FYI, If you go to https://pypi.python.org/simple/pytest_pep8/ (note the underscore) you'll end up at "pytest-pep8". If you try to use "pytest_pep8" with xmlrpc/json apis, you get a failure.

[devpi-bot]

Original comment by @hpk42

much better project name normalization was released with 1.1

[devpi-bot]

Original comment by @lbrack

Confirming. Thanks.