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| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/1390.misc.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | setuptools/dist.py | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/1390.misc.rst b/changelog.d/1390.misc.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5e4fb114 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/1390.misc.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Validation of Description field now is more lenient, emitting a warning and mangling the value to be valid (replacing newlines with spaces). diff --git a/setuptools/dist.py b/setuptools/dist.py index 2d0aac33..172d66b1 100644 --- a/setuptools/dist.py +++ b/setuptools/dist.py @@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ def read_pkg_file(self, file): def single_line(val): # quick and dirty validation for description pypa/setuptools#1390 if '\n' in val: - raise ValueError("newlines not allowed") + # TODO after 2021-07-31: Replace with `raise ValueError("newlines not allowed")` + warnings.UserWarning("newlines not allowed and will break in the future") + val = val.replace('\n', ' ') return val |