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I don't believe they would.

Looking at the top 20 packages in the last month by download (packages with hundreds of millions of downloads), only 1 of them shipped a GPG signature with their most recent release. I haven't asked the author of that one, but I do know them and I suspect they agree with the idea that it's not a valuable thing and they do it largely because it exists.

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> they do it largely because it exists.

That’s me. I used to upload signatures to PyPI only because it’s a thing that exists and it’s not much trouble. I’d be counted among the valid 36%, but I doubt anyone ever verified even one of the hundreds of sigs I uploaded over the years. I eventually stopped due to the pointlessness.

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