Trash on PyPI

As an outcome of some planless Tuesday afternoon hacking, I created zopyx.trashfinder.

zopyx.trashfinder is a small script perform some sanity check on packages registered on PyPI.

Sanity means

• the package has description
• the package has a summary
• the package metadata contains either the name of the author or the maintainer
• the package metadata contains either the email of the author or the maintainer
• the package releases contain actually files - either directly on PyPI or at least through a valid download_url

I consider those requirements minimal and easy to fulfill for any package maintainer - I stay with my statement that PyPI is the public data toilet of the Python community.

Checks on zope.* packages