Release of new version failing

[grossir]

I was trying to release a new juriscraper version, and the deploy action has an error

Checking dist/juriscraper-2.6.53-py27-none-any.whl: ERROR    InvalidDistribution: Invalid distribution metadata: unrecognized or    
         malformed field 'license-file'

This has been reported by other people here pypa/twine#1216 (comment) and the solution seems to be using specific versions of twine and packaging packages

[grossir]

just setting the versions in requirements.txt did not work

twine>=6.1
packaging==24.2

# tried this too
twine>=6.1
packaging>=24.2

It seems that the packaging requirement is not met; From the actions log

Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=24.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from twine) (24.0)

[grossir]

From the cited twine issue, I tried updating the requirements.txt file, and that failed.
After reading some more, this is because there are 2 distinct steps in the process of building:

• setting up the build environment
• actually building the package

the requirements.txt file belongs to the second step; but we actually needed to update the packaging version in the first step. This was solved by adding a -run step to the pypi workflow. We will need to do the same for other FLP repos that use the same workflow

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
      - run: python -m pip install -U packaging
      - uses: casperdcl/deploy-pypi@v2
        with:
          password: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
          build: true

[mlissner]

This was annoying. Thanks for dealing with it!