<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Yep, this is what I chose to do for our packages like https://pypi.org/project/microsoft/ (updated since I first posted about it).<br><br>The intent of this PEP is to be able to clean up *unmaintained* packages, so if you have an "invalid" package but also a justification and you are reachable, I expect there should be no issues.<br><br>Top-posted from my Windows Phone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:dsuch@zato.io">Dariusz Suchojad</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">1/16/2017 13:29</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:Distutils-Sig@Python.Org">Distutils-Sig@Python.Org</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [Distutils] RFC: PEP 541 - Package Index Name Retention</span><br><br></div>On 16/01/17 22:19, Nick Timkovich wrote:<br>> If you have a non-release release with some description text and a<br>> home-page that points to where active development is going on (that could<br>> constitute "functionality" in a non-code way), I think that should preempt<br>> a reasonable person (which is hopefully a superset of maintainers) from<br>> deleting it.<br><br>Yes, indeed, this is what I'd like to clarify. Someone is simply bound<br>to clean up all the packages at one point and this PEP likely will be<br>the basis for deciding what to delete or not so I'd very much like to<br>ensure ours will not be removed.<br><br>regards,<br><br>-- <br>Dariusz Suchojad<br><br>https://zato.io<br>ESB, SOA, REST, APIs and Cloud Integrations in Python <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org<br>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig<br></body></html>