[Distutils] PyPI registration and ownership of package names

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:11 AM 3/7/2008 -0500, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
>Are PyPI names exclusive to the first registration?
>
>Not to single out a particular developer, but does the presence of
>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Reporting/1.0 mean that the top-level name
>'Reporting' always and forever belongs to a proprietary package with no
>upload?

This is a topic for the Catalog-SIG, actually.