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Removing PGP from PyPI


PyPI has removed support for uploading PGP signatures with new releases.

Historically, PyPI has supported uploading PGP signatures alongside the release artifacts in an attempt to provide some level of package signing. However, the approach used had long standing, documented issues which had previously lead us to deemphasize the support for PGP signatures over time by removing them from the PyPI web user interface. While it doesn't represent a massive operational burden to continue to support it, it does require any new features that touch the storage of files to be made aware of and capable of handling these PGP signatures, which is a non zero cost on the maintainers and contributors of PyPI.

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