On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:22 AM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> FYI, I noticed this package that claimed to be maintained by us: >> https://pypi.org/project/numpy-aarch64/. That's not ours, so I tried to >> contact the author (no email provided, but guessed the same username on >> GitHub) and asked to remove it: >> https://github.com/tomasriv/DNA_Sequence/issues/1. >> >> There are a very large number of packages with "numpy" in the name on >> PyPI, and there's no way we can audit/police that effectively, but if it's >> a rebuild that pretends like it's official then I think it's worth doing >> something about. It could contain malicious code for all we know. >> >> > That is a pretty misleading package description, would have fooled me if I > didn't know better. I didn't get the impression it was malicious, but still > . . > Hard to know whether it was malicious or not. I finally filed a PyPI issue to hand over the package to me so I can delete the wheel and replace the README: https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/1635 Cheers, Ralf
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