On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Obviously this isn't the only problem if the account of an SQLAlchemy
> > maintainer is compromised - other threats can manifest as well.
>
> So, why you think PyPI has to have protections against the hacking of
> maintainers' accounts is beyond me. That's a completely unreasonable
> expectation.
>
> Besides, being able to delete a release is mandatory (imagine you have
> uploaded
> confidential files by mistake).
>
>

The original proposal was "retaining a record of the uploaded file (though
not the contents) so that future uploads with the same name wouldn't be
allowed."

It sounds like you would be happy with that proposal.
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