Unable to recreate a removed pending publisher

[arneso-ssb]

Describe the bug

I created a pending publisher on PyPI with these values:

• PyPI Project Name: ssb-wrapr
• Owner: statisticsnorway
• Repository name: ssb-wrapr
• Workflow name: release.yml

Then I removed the pending publisher, since I wanted to change the package name to wrapr, but that didn't work since the wrapr-name was already taken. Then I tried to recreate the pending publisher with same values as above, but then I get the error:
"This trusted publisher has already been registered. Please contact PYPI's admins if this wasn't intentional"

We are two users working on this repo, usernames kss2k and arneso-ssb on PyPI. kss2k is the one with the issue.

Expected behavior

To be able to recreate the same pending publisher that was removed.

To Reproduce

See description above.

My Platform

Using Firefox version 130.0.1 on on Windows 11.
Additional context

[woodruffw]

Thanks for the report @arneso-ssb. Just to confirm:

1. You created a pending publisher for ssb-wrapr
2. Your deleted that pending publisher
3. You tried to create a publisher for wrapr, but that failed because wrapr is already taken
4. You tried to recreate the pending publisher for ssb-wrapr, and it failed with the message you've provided

Did I get that sequence correct?

Also, could you share your account event log for the relevant events? You can take a screenshot of them under "Security history" on https://pypi.org/manage/account/.

[Kss2k]

The sequence is correct. This is the relevant part of the Security History:

[di]

That activity looks different than what you described, it shows removing a publisher for the ssb-wrapr project and then adding one for the rwrapr project.

[Kss2k]

Sorry if we were unclear. We removed the ssb-wrapr pending publisher, in order to create the same pending publisher with the name wrapr. When we were unable to cerate a new one with the name wrapr we decided to switch back to ssb-wrapr, which now was unavailable as well. We then choose the name rwrapr (since neither wrapr and ssb-wraper were available)

[di]

Got it. I think this:

When we were unable to cerate a new one with the name wrapr

should be improved by fixing #17392.

we decided to switch back to ssb-wrapr, which now was unavailable as well.

I'm unable to reproduce this. I just added/removed a pending publisher with that name twice and it worked:

I also don't see any other publishers that would conflict with this.

Can you confirm that when you go to https://pypi.org/manage/account/publishing/ and fill the form with the same values, you get an error?