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Update URL scheme for packages hosted on PyPI

Peter Bittner requested to merge bittner/gitlab:feature/pypi-new-warehouse into master

What does this MR do and why?

Updates the URL scheme for hyperlinking Python packages in requirements.txt files.

GitLab makes hyperlinks for Python packages listed in requirements.txt to PyPI, the Python Package Index, a public service by the Python Foundation.

Those packages used to be hosted on http://pypi.python.org, but the hostname (and webserver implementation) changed a few years ago. PyPI is now available at https://pypi.org, packages are referred to with the /project/ path, and the URL path always has a trailing slash.

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The above screenshot shows that the Python packages listed in a requirements.txt file are currently hyperlinked with the old PyPI URL scheme.

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Fire up the GitLab web interface
  2. Visit a repository with a Python project having a requirements.txt file

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