[Catalog-sig] remove historic download/homepage links for a project

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/28/2013 06:21 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 1 March 2013 04:10, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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>> On 02/28/2013 11:27 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>>> But necessary to have. Or am the only one that accidently released
>>> a version that had serious bugs?
>> 
>> Nope.  The way to address such a version is to release a new, fixed 
>> version (preferably one with a suitably-PEP-compliant version which 
>> indicates the version being corrected).  The only legitimate reason
>> to yank a release is that you are under legal compulsion to do so
>> (a takedown notice or equivalent), or you discover that the version
>> released has been trojaned in some way.
> 
> You may have listed the only reason *you will allow* but the owner of 
> the package can do whatever they want. You're correct that once the 
> package is "out in the wild" you can't get all those copies back, but 
> they can (for whatever reason they have and no, I'm not going to 
> needlessly speculate) remove it from PyPI. You have no legal or moral 
> right to compel them to do otherwise.

I wasn't claiming any right:  I was arguing that anybody who shares
software with the community does the community a disservice by removing a
release because it "has serious bugs."  Brown-bag releases happen:  ab
open source community repairs the damage from them by making new
releases, not by covering them up.


Tres.
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