ctypes simple API missing all pacakges

[cooperlees]

Hi all,

Don't know if this is a warehouse specific problem but the simple API for ctypes is missing all the packages in the HTML. It seems to be broken @ both pypi.org + pypi.python.org (didn't check if they point at the same thing) - i.e.

• https://pypi.org/project/ctypes/
• https://pypi.python.org/simple/ctypes/

The package page only lists on Warehouse - i.e.:

• https://pypi.org/project/ctypes/
  NOT
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes/

This is also causing my bandersnatch internal mirror to replicate this bug too. How can we debug why this is occurring?

[di]

It seems like this is intentional? As far as I can tell the project night have never actually published distributions on PyPI, and instead just published metadata.

Furthermore the maintainer has hidden every release, which causes the project to 404 on legacy, but Warehouse has no concept of a hidden release.

[cooperlees]

Yeah, agree. I was just going off believing an internal dev and I should of verified if it is indeed a real PyPI package still etc. - I think this was prematurely opened.

But, seeing it in pypi.org and not in pypi.python.org is misleading.

[cooperlees]

I'm going to look at adding an optional feature to bandersnatch to allow an admin to ask for X copies of index.html for the Simple API files to allow comparison of changes etc. if things unexpectedly change:
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/bandersnatch/issues/106/look-at-keeping-x-old-indexhtml-files-for

• Low priority tho.

[di]

Closing because I don't think there's anything for us to do here.