Today I Learned: 13/04/2026 - Removing a packege from a pypiserver instance
Publish date: 13 Apr 2026
My employer runs a pypiserver instance as a simple repository of internal Python modules. It inevitably happened recently that I published a package to it that was broken and should not be used. I had to remind myself how to remove a package from the server and found this guide.
The supplied action in the POST payload is “:action” and the colon gave httpie some trouble. As a self-reminder, this is what worked: