[Catalog-sig] Deprecate External Links

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> no support for UCS2/UCS4 binary distributions, unsupported
>> distribution file formats (e.g. our prebuilt format),
>
> Not sure why PyPI would even care what charset the package files use,
> but if true thats certainly a bug and we can get that fixed. What
> file formats do pip/buildout support that PyPI doesn't support for
> uploads?


Basically, this is all about spam/abuse prevention. I don't want people
to upload movie files (whether they be pirated movies or porn files, or
just home video) to abuse PyPI as a general file hosting service, and
I don't see a way to manually redact the content on PyPI.

Regards,
Martin