PEP 541 Request: yaramail

[seanthegeek]

Project to be claimed

yaramail: https://pypi.org/project/yaramail

Your PyPI username

Sean.Whalen: https://pypi.org/user/Sean.Whalen

Reasons for the request

I'd like to create a new project on PyPI called yaramail that uses yara to scan emails. A yaramail project is not currently viable on PyPI, so I spent weeks building a new project by that name thinking I could use it , but when I tried to upload the first release using hatch, I got an error stating that the name was not allowed. Unfortunately, no feedback was provided about why the name was not allowed.

(venv) sean@sean-desktop ~/d/yaramail (main)> hatch publish
Enter your username: Sean.Whalen
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dist/yaramail-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl ... failed
Client error '400 The name 'yaramail' isn't allowed. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.' for url 'https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/'
For more information check: https://httpstatuses.com/400

PyPI might consider the name yaramail to be too similar to the existing yara-python package. There are clear differences between the projects and their names. yara-python is a Python interface to the libyara C library. yaramail uses yara-python to scan emails with YARA rules.

Is it possible that a yaramail project was created and deleted on PyPI at some point? When choosing a name for my project, I did notice another GitHub repository with the same name and similar goals, but I figured I was in the clear because the last commit to that repository was in 2013, and I didn't see a PyPI project with that name. I have no idea what else to call my project other than yaramail.

Maintenance or replacement?

Replacement

Source code repositories URLs

No current project exists on PyPI

Repository of proposed code: https://github.com/seanthegeek/yaramail
Documentation: https://seanthegeek.github.io/yaramail/

Contact and additional research

No current project exists on PyPI

Code of Conduct

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[seanthegeek]

I went with yara-mail instead.

What is interesting is, when I tried to upload yara-mail to Test PyPI after successfully uploading yaramail to Test PyPI, I got a much more specific error message that said the name was too similar to an existing project, until I deleted the yaramail project in Test PyPI.

(venv) sean@sean-desktop ~/d/yaramail (main) [1]> hatch publish -r test
dist/yara_mail-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl ... failed
Client error '400 The name 'yara-mail' is too similar to an existing project. See https://test.pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.' for url 'https://test.pypi.org/legacy/'
For more information check: https://httpstatuses.com/400