On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Chris Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > The tricky part there is that "being used" is a tough concept to define. > Over what time period? What amount of downloading counts as "used"? > > I believe these concepts need to be made very clear, because the impact of > exploitative replacement is pretty severe if it is made to happen. >
Would a month where the old package is made unavailable, but the new owner is not given access yet be a good compromise ? It most likely let time the old owner (or old users) to manifest a decide to "revive" the package if necessary, otherwise give a really strong signal that if there is still a couple of download, then it really does not breaks a lot. -- M _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
