Installing product 'collective.examples.userdata' gives "error: docs/HISTORY.txt: No such file or directory"

Question

I am trying to try out collective.examples.userdata (by adding collective.examples.userdata to the eggs section of my buildout) but it's giving an error:

Getting distribution for 'collective.examples.userdata'.
error: docs/HISTORY.txt: No such file or directory

I have looked at the git repo and there is a docs/HISTORY.txt, so I am not sure why this would happen.

Answer 1

Because the release is broken.

Often times due to the complexity of releasing a package, mistakes are made. To avoid errors like this one, release managers can use the check-manifest utility which matches files in the sdist to files in the MANIFEST.in file and reports the results.