I’ve cloned xdrlib onto GitHub (GitHub - da4089/py-xdrlib: Python module for XDR (IETF RFC1014 / RFC1832 / RFC4506) encoding and decoding) with the intention of taking over its maintenance. I’ve registered it as py-xdrlib on PyPI because of the naming policy.
I’m not sure it makes sense for minor modules like these to inherit the namespace of the stdlib packages. Who’s to say that my stewardship is as secure, long-lived, etc, as the PSF? Forcing some manual consideration into the adoption process seems reasonable.
It’d be nice to have a textual redirection entry on PyPI though?