765838 – [TRACKER] setuptools-51.3.0+ breakage (#1390: Newlines in metadata description/Summary now trigger a ValueError)

Bug 765838 - [TRACKER] setuptools-51.3.0+ breakage (#1390: Newlines in metadata description/Summary now trigger a ValueError)

Summary: [TRACKER] setuptools-51.3.0+ breakage (#1390: Newlines in metadata descriptio...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team

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Depends on:	765775 765814
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Reported:	2021-01-17 21:15 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2022-11-12 03:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michał Górny archtester

2021-01-17 21:15:35 UTC

From CHANGES.rst:

* #1390: Newlines in metadata description/Summary now trigger a ValueError.

Produces backtraces like:

[...]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 124, in single_line
    raise ValueError("newlines not allowed")
ValueError: newlines not allowed

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2021-01-17 23:23:08 UTC

Unsurprisingly, upstream turned it into a warning in 51.3.2.  I'm going to push 51.3.3 in a minute.