Closed gucci-on-fleek closed 4 years ago
Thanks! We're aware of the spam packages - I think generally they have been removed from PyPI, and we have the ability to notice when a package is removed. We just haven't actually added a step to remove them from piwheels. We will definitely aim to address this in due course.
These should be gone now
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Looking through the package directory, I'm seeing a lot of spam packages. I've got a list of the bad packages and the shell commands that I used to find them below.
Preparation
Long Package Names (≥40 chars.)
Matching Packages (Click to expand)
Contains Phone Number
Matching Packages (Click to expand)
Contains Unusual Characters
Matching Packages (Click to expand)
Not all of the matching packages are spam, but most of them are. Most (if not all) of the above packages have already been removed from the Python Package Index, so this isn't really an upstream issue.