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[Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Surprisingly, easy_install detects the 8.2.0 tarball:

> /tmp/p1/bin/easy_install Twisted
Searching for Twisted
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Twisted/
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/
Reading http://www.twistedmatrix.com
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/products/download
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/
Best match: Twisted 8.2.0
Downloading http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/8.2/Twisted-8.2.0.tar.bz2#md5=c85f151999df3ecf04c49a781b4438d2

but not z3c.pypimirror.

Should we be delegating the detection to setuptools?

** Affects: pypi-mirror
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Twisted 8.2.0 fails to download
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386143
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Bug description:
Surprisingly, easy_install detects the 8.2.0 tarball:

> /tmp/p1/bin/easy_install Twisted
Searching for Twisted
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Twisted/
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/
Reading http://www.twistedmatrix.com
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/products/download
Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/
Best match: Twisted 8.2.0
Downloading http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/8.2/Twisted-8.2.0.tar.bz2#md5=c85f151999df3ecf04c49a781b4438d2

but not z3c.pypimirror. 

Should we be delegating the detection to setuptools?