Gernot Hillier

Ah, I see, so for my example above I should just use this today: ```json "name": "chardet", "version": "4.0.0", "externalReferences": [ { "type": "distribution", "url": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/19/c7/fa589626997dd07bd87d9269342ccb74b1720384a4d739a1872bd84fbe68/chardet-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", "comment": "PyPI wheel file"...

Side node: this issue had a severe performance impact for me because I had many small, independent request.get() calls in my code. After refactoring my code to use a requests.Session(),...

@bufferoverflow @Silvanoc @johann-pfefferl, any thoughts on this?

Thanks, @guillemj and @Silvanoc for your answers! I can see your point - and it gets even more confusing taking into account @Silvanoc's comment regarding hosting, because https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/master/PURL-TYPES.rst#deb states: "There...

> @gernot-h see for example: http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/bo/main/binary-i386/base/ or http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/editors/. Thanks! At those times I was busy changing floppy disks and cdroms while installing S.u.S.E. Linux and had no look on Debian...

Well, in my use case (and I assume in many others), having readable strings will make it way more easy to introduce package-urls and convince colleagues to use them instead...

@bufferoverflow, any thoughts on this from your side or any recommendation whom with strong background in URL RFCs we could ask to review this?

While I also stumbled hard about this and also would welcome a clearer wording, I see no contradiction here and would consider current testcases correct. First statement summarizes where the...

@pombredanne Great, anything I can do to help sorting this out? Prepare some pull requests? (I will be on vacation for the next 1.5 weeks, but be interested to help...

> @gernot-h is this still an open issue? Thanks for asking! Yes, definitely. Within Siemens AG, we created a kind of downstream specification extending and narrowing down CycloneDX (parts of...