v25.0.0 release yanked

[Antiz96]

Hi,

I see the v25.0.0 release has been "yanked" and reported "broken" on Pypi.

We already upgraded to it at Arch Linux and some other distributions did as well, like Gentoo (cc @mgorny) and openSUSE (cc @johanneskastl) for instance.
Other distributions are also currently looking at upgrading to v25.0.0, like Alpine for instance.

Is it possible to get a bit more information about this release removal?
Is it broken enough to justify removing it from our repositories or can it wait for a new fixed release?
Is such a fixed release on its way already?

I remain available if needed.
Thanks in advance!

[ssbarnea]

@Antiz96 It was yanked because it caused serious problems with molecule and we have being working since to make a new release, one that also includes fixes and preventive measures for it. Once #447 is merged, we should be able to make a new release.

I guess that you are affected because you rely on tags instead of pypi releases to retrieve the latest one. If so, we could also remove or replace the yanked tag next time this happens.

[mgorny]

To be honest, the only way to reliably notify people that they shouldn't use a release is… to make a new release instead. For Gentoo, I'm following PyPI RSS feeds for releases, and they don't report yanking at all, so I'm going to only notice another release.

[ssbarnea]

A new release might take some time and I do not see any reasons for making another release that has the same content as the last known good, with different numbers bigger than the broken one. I am now also watching the upstream ticket.