On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:22 AM Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@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