setuptools (39.1.0) doesn't set up Description-Content-Type correctly on Windows
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Originally reported in pypa/warehouse#4341.
It looks like long_description is full of Windows-style carriage-return characters (^M) which seem to have confused twine/pkginfo about what is and what isn't part of long_description.
My project at PyPI is at: https://pypi.org/project/gff3tool/1.4.2.
Libraries used:
wheel==0.31.1
setuptools==39.1.0
twine==1.11.0
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Reproduce the Windows behavior using the listed wheel, setuptools, and twine versions, then trace how carriage returns in long_description affect Description-Content-Type metadata. Compare the generated package metadata with the expected PyPI behavior for gff3tool 1.4.2; done means the field is set correctly on Windows.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
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