A defunct project of mine has been categorized as "critical"

PyPI Stats filters out downloads from mirrors (such as bandersnatch) in an attempt to better reflect end-user downloads:

Looking at lockfile’s relative position, those 10m downloads put it in the top 300, so it’s clearly important to the community:

One option to encourage people stop using it: if you’re still in a position to release, emit a DeprecationWarning on import suggesting the replacements. Or something noisier like a UserWarning.

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