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by amiga386 25 days ago
That's a very visible Ken Thompson style attack. The modern expectation is that PyPI would be evaluating this build-system section and would only accept build-systems that they trust to turn package distributions into wheels, and the end users only need the wheels. If you need a specific version of hatchling that they know of, that's fine. If you need something they haven't heard of, they should say no.