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Thanks for reporting. Happy to accept ignoring non PEP440 valid version and downloading all that are. As I think you've worked out wrapping that `versions_pair` variable setting in a `try/except...

Interesting, we don't support / test Python 3.9 to start with. We may have used more recent python syntax. I would have expected you would have had to hack things...

I feel let's retry on latest version of bandersnatch and reopen if still an issue.

The speed increase is amazing too based on the integration tests - **>10s saved** : - XMLRPC - https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch/actions/runs/13679190278/job/38246889516 - 27s - SimpleJSON - https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch/actions/runs/13686864483/job/38272166947?pr=1898 - 10s

So what do we want to do here? I think we should keep xmlrpc for now, leave it default, and allow a config param to use the simple API. Then...

Should I finish the PR and ship it with xmlrpc support on as default? I love the idea here of removing xmlrpc, but i don't think we're there. Last ping...

Just for all here understanding, how fresh are the xmlrpc endpoints for Bandersnatch today? Pretty much always to origin/main service and at most seconds out of date right? So people...

> what's my next step then? Restoring default support for xmlrpc controlled via configuration. I feel we can release noting we are planning to deprecate xmlrpc support, advertise the 30min...

@pombredanne - I've put up #2075 so we can ship this support non default and discuss moving it to default after that ...

I welcome any fixes here that adhere to PEPs. PRs welcome.