Packaging

Standards Standards discussions, ala PEPs as well as some proposals/grand ideas for changes to how things are done. Announcements Announcements about projects. This is releases for “major” projects (mainly pip releases and PyPI feature deployments), as well as one-off announcements for new projects/tools. User Feedback User feedback about the packaging tooling such as information from a UX review, user surveys, and feedback about specific user workflows. Coordination Coordination discussions. This is mechanical stuff that involves co-ordinating multi-project effort, or stuff like the governance story about how we do those things.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Packaging category Packaging	5	6996	March 11, 2019
Spec change/bugfix: dependency specifiers simplification (PEP 508) Standards	10	459	January 6, 2026
PEP 725: Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml (round 2) Standards	91	2309	January 3, 2026
Pre-PEP Discussion: RFC 9457 Error Responses for Package registries Standards	8	321	January 2, 2026
PEP 804: An external dependency registry and name mapping mechanism Standards	44	1685	December 31, 2025
Accessibility issues in the PyPI donation banner User Feedback	11	805	December 24, 2025
Are setuptools abandoned? User Feedback setuptools	12	1117	December 22, 2025
PEP 808: Partially dynamic project metadata Packaging	33	1287	December 21, 2025
Can't log in to pypi and PYPI_TOKEN no longer works User Feedback	3	196	December 18, 2025
Encoding "origin" in wheel and dist-info metadata (for downstream security backports) Packaging	17	553	December 17, 2025
On resolving distributions vs. releases Packaging	14	405	December 16, 2025
Block download of components when violating policy Packaging	11	567	December 16, 2025
Adding extension module examples to the packaging user guide Packaging	36	777	December 15, 2025
PEP 772: Packaging Council governance process (Round 3) Coordination	101	2916	December 14, 2025
New project (CLI) install-locked-env. What about security? Packaging	8	247	December 12, 2025
Installing dependencies without the package Packaging	7	244	December 11, 2025
PEP 815: Deprecate `RECORD.jws` and `RECORD.p7s` Packaging	6	279	December 11, 2025
Hatch v1.16.0 - workspaces, dependency groups and SBOMs Announcements	3	402	December 8, 2025
Reconciling `packaging` module & The Dependency Specifier Spec's non-version to version comparison rules Standards	17	766	December 8, 2025
PEP 694 -- PyPI upload API 2.0 (Round 2) Standards	34	1076	December 7, 2025
PEP 739: Static description file for build details of Python installations Standards	120	4286	December 7, 2025
A tool to see what dependencies support free-threading Announcements free-threading	0	127	December 5, 2025
How to hash a directory in lockfiles Packaging	37	1020	December 4, 2025
Mistakes in Dependency specifiers Grammar Standards	2	178	December 4, 2025
How to securely embed multiple Python packages with an embedded interpreter (PyInstaller) without exposing source code? Packaging	4	138	December 4, 2025
Discouraging/deprecating PEP 427-style signatures? Packaging	6	557	December 4, 2025
Linux distro patches to `sysconfig` are changing `pip install --prefix` outside virtual environments Packaging	37	3082	December 3, 2025
PEP 803: Stable ABI for Free-Threaded Builds (packaging thread) Packaging pep	67	1002	November 29, 2025
Building debug version of extensions on Windows without debug binaries Packaging	8	220	November 25, 2025
Clarify that arbitrary equality is supposed to be case insensitive Standards	48	717	November 22, 2025