On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Il giorno 23/feb/2013, alle ore 00:44, Donald Stufft <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> ha scritto:
> 
> > On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Justin Cappos wrote:
> > > >  1c) hide/show a package version
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I need to look into this more.   There are several ways this can be set 
> > > up and I need to understand more to know how to respond.  Offhand, I 
> > > would say that having the developer sign and upload metadata indicating 
> > > hidden vs. visible is the most secure.  From a usability perspective, 
> > > PyPI could sign something stating this instead, but this requires 
> > > trusting PyPI more than may be wise.  Were it my system, I'd prefer the 
> > > former (and can talk more about risks with the latter), but either choice 
> > > seems reasonable. 
> > Hiding/showing a package on PyPI is only in the webui. It doesn't actually 
> > effect what the installation tools can find. 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Uh-uh, never known this until today. Then this is, by itself, a possible 
> security hole. I would like to see this fixed somehow (either removing the 
> feature, and making sure installation tools match the web ui experience).
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Crate implements this by showing that the "hidden" version existed in the 
webui, but visually
showing it as "crossed out" / removed. 

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