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Latest episode · #492 · August 18, 2026

Codeberg Puts Head in Sand

  • Python 3.12.14, 3.11.16, 3.10.21 - security releases
  • Codeberg’s AI-code ban tests its role as a GitHub alternative
  • Brett Cannon: what's missing for reproducible builds on PyPI
  • - nothing records the source code a distribution came from. direct_url.json captures it when you install from a repo or archive, so the fix is putting the same info in sdist/wheel metadata.
  • - recording the build tools. Wheels can already do this via PEP 770 SBOMs in .dist-info/sboms/ - sdists can't, since they're a tarball plus a precalculated PKG-INFO with nowhere to hang extra metadata. Either "don't use sdists" or an sdist v2.
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