This has been discussed previously (see the mailing list archive.) As a matter of policy we will always allow users to delete their content from pypi. On Jan 30, 2012 5:26 PM, "Thomas Lotze" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote: > > > I'm considering closing this loophole by retaining a record of the > > uploaded file (though not the contents) so that future uploads with the > > same name wouldn't be allowed. I understand that this is how the ruby gem > > archive handles deletion of files. > > I'd even suggest disallowing to delete files in the first place and > retain them including their contents. I regularly see trouble arising from > files having been deleted from PyPI that are needed even after their > authors considered them obsolete. This may simply be due to version > pinning in some application deployment or similar. > > -- > Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig >
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