[Distutils] PyPi not allowing duplicate filenames

[Jeremy Stanley]

On 2015-10-14 09:43:25 -0700 (-0700), Chris Barker wrote:
[...]
> I propose that PyPi allow projects to replace existing files if
> they REALLY REALLY want to.
> 
> You should have to jump through all sorts of hoops, and make it
> really clear that it is a BAD IDEA in the general case, but it'd
> be good to have it be possible.
[...]

It used to be possible. If that possibility returns, I'm not looking
forward to more of the bugs I used to semi-regularly file explaining
to package authors why their assumptions about the safety of
silently replacing their broken releases were flawed.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley