[issue12366] packaging.pypi.dist should abstract download errors.

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12366] packaging.pypi.dist should abstract download errors.

Éric Araujo added the comment: I agree that we can wrap exceptions to provide more useful info where needed. It’s not necessary, however, to always catch exceptions and raise Packaging*Errors instead: distutils and packaging are documented to raise ValueError and other standard exceptions in

[issue12366] packaging.pypi.dist should abstract download errors.

New submission from Michael Mulich : packaging.pypi.dist should abstract download errors, especially those from external sources. Download errors are currently reported from urllib. We should probably be using packaging.errors.PackagingPyPIError in this situation. Other suggestions? Example c