Unable to register package that doesn't have a page on pypi

[ewdurbin]

Originally reported by: Peter Inglesby (Bitbucket: inglesp, GitHub: inglesp)

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https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spider/ returns a 404, but I am unable to register a package called "spider".

Here's some of the output from python setup.py register:

Registering spider to https://pypi.python.org/pypi
Server response (403): You are not allowed to store 'spider' package information

https://pypi.io/project/spider/ also returns a 404.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/456

[ewdurbin]

Original comment by Gregory Petukhov (Bitbucket: lorien, GitHub: lorien):

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Yep. Same for me :(

[berkerpeksag]

That means that the package name spider has already been taken by someone else, but no release has uploaded yet. Perhaps this can be improved in Warehouse. Could you create a new issue at https://github.com/pypa/warehouse ?

[inglesp]

Thanks for looking at this @berkerpeksag.