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PyPI now supports digital attestations

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218 points miketheman | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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belval ◴[14 Nov 24 16:05 UTC] No.42137562[source]▶
I have a bit of uneasiness about how this is heavily pushing GitHub actions as the correct way to publish to PyPI. I had to check PEP740 to make sure it was not directly supported by Microsoft.

> The generation and publication of attestations happens by default, and no changes are necessary for projects that meet all of these conditions: publish from GitHub Actions; via Trusted Publishing; and use the pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish action to publish.

If you then click on "The manual way" it adds a big disclaimer:

> STOP! You probably don't need this section; it exists only to provide some internal details about how attestation generation and uploading work. If you're an ordinary user, it is strongly recommended that you use one of the official workflows described above.

Where the only official workflow is "Use GitHub Actions".

I guess I am an idealist but as a maintainer this falls short of my expectations for the openness of Python and PyPI.

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1. hifromwork ◴[14 Nov 24 16:46 UTC] No.42138035[source]▶
Even more, the previous way was to use GPG signatures, which were recently deprecated and removed. So you don't really have a choice.

>Where the only official workflow is "Use GitHub Actions".

Well you can do it manually with other solutions... as long as they are one of the four trusted publishers (see "Producing attestations manually does not bypass (...) restrictions on (...) Trusted Publishers":

https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/adding-a-publisher/...

This means that you literally can't do it manually, you have to rely on one of:

* Github

* Google Cloud

* ActiveState (I'm not familiar with it)

* Github.com (not just github, only that one instance)

Really surprising development, IMO.

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2. burnt-resistor ◴[15 Nov 24 06:06 UTC] No.42144318[source]▶
It looks a lot like reinventing the wheel, but as an octagon.