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By Sarah Gooding - Sep 12, 2025
sparsify-nightly
- Version
- 0.0.1
- Maintainers
- 1
What is this?
This is a stub package intended to mitigate the risks of dependency confusion. It holds a once-popular package name removed by its author (or for other reasons, such as security).
You might encounter this public package if your application:
- Depends on a package that has since been deleted.
- Contains a typo in the package name.
This package contains no code — it simply raises an installation-time error to make the problem more noticeable.
Read more about Dependency Confusion.
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We found that sparsify-nightly demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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