If I recall correctly, people were building against the Numpy 2.0.0 release
candidates in particular. In hindsight keeping those on PyPI might have
been better. A formal NEP/SPEC seems a good idea.

Peter

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM matti picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would prefer we never delete packages once we upload them to PyPI,
> unless there are security issues with them. As Sean demonstrated,
> someone somewhere is going to be using them, and deleting packages
> will inevitably break something.
> Matti
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 7:44 PM Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chuck,
> >
> > I've got a version of a package on PyPI that requires Numpy 2.0.0rc1 at
> build time. Not the best decision in hindsight, but I assumed that Numpy
> was the kind of project that wouldn't remove published distributions unless
> there were security issues. It had not up today, right? Would it be
> possible to restore 2.0.0rc1?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I just got through deleting a bunch of pre-releases on PyPi and it
> occurred to me that we should have a policy as to what releases should be
> kept. I think that reproducibility requires that we keep all the major and
> micro versions, but if so, we should make that an official guarantee.
> Perhaps a short NEP? This might even qualify for an SPEC. Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Chuck
> >
> >
> > --
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