PyPI Feed Package Stats Negative

itops_6398

Hello,

I've been testing the functionality for reporting package download statistics based on feed downloads. I've noticed something strange, all versions of all packages (that have never been downloaded before) show as having either -1 or -2 downloads, some examples below of random packages that I've never used;

Other packages it gets even stranger, this example below shows numpy, I've never pulled any of the visible versions (which show -25, -28 or -32 downloads) - when I view the full version list, numpy shows varying levels of negative downloads for all 50+ versions of the package.

If I dig deeper into one of these versions (the example below shows numpy==1.26.0 which shows -32 downloads), you can see that they've never been pulled from the feed;

Just wondering what the best course of action is to debug this further?

Thanks!

itops_6398

I've recreated the approved / unapproved feeds, initially the downloads for all packages is in the feed dev-pypi (unapproved feed that's hooked the PyPI connector) were correctly showing as 0

However after promoting 1 package from dev-pypi to prod-pypi all of the downloads for all packages are now showing -2 in the dev feed. The prod feed (which the package was promoted to) is just showing at one version, and correctly showing 0 downloads, however everything seems to be doubled up;

When I look at local packages under prod-pypi after promoting requests==2.31.0 from dev-pypi to prod-pypi, I can see 2 local copies of the same package promoted at the exact same time.

Likewise, the dev feed dev-pypi is showing the same package cached twice

Not sure if this behavior is contributing to the strange negative downloads in any way.

EDIT:

It seems to have started to happen again even on the newly created feeds, I've not interacted with these feeds in anyway aside from promoting a single package from the dev feed to the prod feed - the below example of ngrok shows both -6 and -10 downloads.

atripp

Hi @itops_6398 ,

On a remote package (i.e. the ones with the radio icon), the download count is whatever is presented by the remote feed. On python packages, some have negative numbers.

Once you pull or cache (i.e. download) the package , the count will start at 0 and ProGet will keep track of the download count.

Cheers,
Alana