PyPI page shows raw ReStructuredText source about decorator HOT 4 CLOSED

It might be that the wheel file you've uploaded to PyPI was built with an older version of wheel and lacks some metadata, or maybe the version of twine you used for the upload was too old and didn't submit the right metadata?

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I have seen this in various situations without ever fully identifying why the supposed default (I think that's indicated somewhere) isn't always used. It can be addressed explicitly such as:

https://github.com/altendky/exttr/blob/60aa5d6e9f04631b8e86552620f2d9cd2a0a3a04/setup.py#L12

long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',

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Or it may be a ReST syntax error after all. If I run twine check on the files downloaded from PyPI, I get errors:

twine check decorator-4.4.0.tar.gz 
Checking distribution /home/mg/Atsiuntimai/decorator-4.4.0.tar.gz: warning: `long_description_content_type` missing.  defaulting to `text/x-rst`.
Failed
The project's long_description has invalid markup which will not be rendered on PyPI. The following syntax errors were detected:
line 66: Warning: Inline literal start-string without end-string.

I don't get these errors if I built a fresh sdist from the 4.4.0 git tag and run twine on it.

In fact if I compare the extracted contents of the 4.4.0 sdist tarball with the 4.4.0 tag from git I see a lot of differences, including setup.py in the tarball reading README.md instead of README.rst! That would explain the problem: PyPI supports Markdown, but only if you specify long_description_content_type='text/markdown'.

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This is fixed now. The tarball for version 4.4.0 actually contained old code that was there by mistake.

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