version flag is not working

[RoccoCloudCycle]

when I specify the version I want, even if it is the latest one, pipoe always fail with (No sdist package can be found error)

I can run the command without specifying the version, but for libraries that depend on specific version is problematic.
For example, I can't install awsiotsdk, even without specifying the version, because it depends explicitly on awscrt v.0.14.0:

awsiotsdk
  | awscrt==0.14.0
  |  [ERROR] Failed to gather awscrt (No sdist package can be found.)

[RoccoCloudCycle]

in get_package_info() when a version is specified the
url = "https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/{}/json".format(package_name, version)
will return a json response that doesn't contain "releases" field, so the following try block will always fails:

        try:
            version_info = next(
                i for i in info["releases"][version] if i["packagetype"] == "sdist"
            )
        except:
            raise Exception("No sdist package can be found.") 

it should be used always
url = "https://pypi.org/pypi/{}/json".format(package_name)

plus line
version = info["info"]["version"]
will always override our desired version with the latest one

[AndreRicardo-Zoetis]

Replicates even with pipoe, using pipoe==2019.11

$ pipoe --package pipoe --version 2019.11
Gathering info:
  pipoe==2019.11
Failed to translate license:
Please enter a valid license name:
   [ERROR] Failed to gather pipoe (No sdist package can be found.)
Generating recipes:

PREFERRED_VERSIONS are available in: ./python-versions.inc

[chadrockey]

I can confirm that this breaks pretty confusingly, especially when translating a requirement.txt create by pip freeze, etc.

The recipes can be created easily by removing the versions or calling on command line without specifying a version.