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"ms-identity-web" package has been squatted by another user on PyPI since May 2023 #9

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miceg opened this issue Mar 27, 2024 · 0 comments

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miceg commented Mar 27, 2024

This issue is for a: (mark with an x)

- [x] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [x] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

pip install ms-identity-web

Any log messages given by the failure

Installs this package from PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ms-identity-web/

This appears to be someone's personal fork of this repository, with additional modifications. It is not clear that this package is not published by Microsoft, as it reproduces this repository's original README, written as a "first party" (ie: Microsoft).

Many Azure tutorials reference the module (but have hard-coded requirements.txt to point at the correct place) – but installing it won't actually work!

The available clues that there may be a problem are:

  • Some labels and commit messages not in English
  • Pointing at someone's personal GitHub repository

Expected/desired behavior

pip install ms-identity-web should install a Microsoft-maintained library, and any needed functionality to use Microsoft Identity APIs with Django and Flask should be in there too.

Alternatively, its functionality should move into the main MSAL for Python library.

OS and Version?

Any/all

Versions

0.0.4 (but this may be a nonsense version number)

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Someone at Microsoft should lodge a name dispute: https://pypi.org/help/#project-name-claim :)

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