URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/472
Title: #472: Packaging: Add placeholder packages

MartinBasti commented:
"""
We want to prevent others to have packages in PyPI with the same names as used 
for IPA. This is reasonable for protecting users to get attacker code from PyPI 
and rewrite working modules installed from rpms. In case that somebody install 
`ipamodulefromhell` we really cannot help this user
"""

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https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/472#issuecomment-281056392
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