Arun Babu Neelicattu

> the addition of a trailing slash was made back in pre-history at [1900633](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/commit/190063305311a4d9bbd4c3fa58f6a3f778782090). I can't tell what the intention was: but for what it's worth the two testcases in...

This is great work @dimbleby. A few notes; 1. Can we please add the metadata file fetching into https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/main/tests/repositories/fixtures/pypi.org/generate.py so that we can manage them going forward. 2. Lets remove...

> I am not motivated to update it to do the work that I have already done. My view would be that if it was useful for you at #9132:...

> I am sceptical about the value of "stubbing" files in `dists`. The files added there in this pull request are - combined - considerably smaller than the existing setuptools...

@dimbleby I will fix up the generate script, there are a few bad assumptions made that need fixing.

@dimbleby made the required changes at #9186 feel free to pick them up from there. One thing I noticed while getting that working was that this change forces Poetry to...

The `fallback = False` case is only one instance of this. For example, https://pypi.org/pypi/trackpy/0.6.2/json lists the `requires_dist` value, my understanding (granted I have not looked at the code path much...

> I'm not sure whether I agree that this is enough reason to stick with the json API, but I do agree that the balance is different than I thought...

> - thanks for the work on generate.py. > - that the "test fixture consistency" test is passing only shows that it does not spot all the files that have...

Isn't this an expected error for FIPS enabled system? As in "do not rely on md5 as a secure hash"? The error message could be better and I guess we...