PEP 753: Uniform project URLs in core metadata

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This is a discussion thread for PEP 753: Uniform URLs in core metadata.

Summary: The PEP proposes deprecating the Home-page and Download-URL headers in favor of well-known labels within the already-standardized Project-URLs multi-use field.

Draft text here: PEP 753: Uniform URLs in core metadata by woodruffw · Pull Request #3936 · python/peps · GitHub

Preview here: PEP 753 – Uniform project URLs in core metadata | peps.python.org

Previous, pre-PEP discussion: Core metadata: should `Home-page` and `Download-URL` be deprecated? - #17 by woodruffw

(P.S. thank you @hugovk for reminding me to create this new thread, rather than reusing the pre-PEP one!)

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You already incorporated my comments, so +1 from me.

There’s a MUST in the producers section that I think would be clearer if relaxed to a SHOULD (the labelling section it references only contains SHOULD and MAY requirements, so this doesn’t actually affect the meaning).

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