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Remove upload work from PyPI API revamp task #6

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### Revamp PyPI API

The [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/), a key platform for Python developers,
has [a minimal API](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/) that does not implement
[many features that users have
requested](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/labels/APIs%2Ffeeds). The lack of
a full-featured API in Warehouse (the PyPI codebase) blocks many improvements,
including:
The [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/), a key platform for Python developers, has a browser interface, but most people use PyPI by hitting its [API endpoints](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/#available-apis) with client applications such as `pip`. PyPI has [a minimal download API](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/) that does not implement [many features that users have requested](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/labels/APIs%2Ffeeds). The lack of a full-featured download API in Warehouse (the PyPI codebase) blocks many improvements, including:

- [Light-bandwidth metadata-only API
calls](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/474) and [JSON
standardization](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7406#issuecomment-583891169)
that would enable better downloads, installations, dependency resolution
features, and troubleshooting for `pip` and other clients
- [Asynchronous
uploads](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/7730) and thus
[some validation checks](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/5420) and
[license compliance checking](https://discuss.python.org/t/improving-license-clarity-with-better-package-metadata/2154/71)
- [RSS feeds](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/7013) that
other platforms could reuse to get PyPI updates in user tooling
- [Release security features (via token
generation)](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/6378)
- [Security notification feeds](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/798)
- [Caching for the bandersnatch mirroring
client](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/284)

This requires backend development work, technical writing, user experience
research, and publicity and coordination work within Python's community.
We'd like to [architect and implement a new Warehouse download API](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/284) to support these features, and deprecate and decommission the old endpoints. This requires backend development work, technical writing, user experience research, and publicity and coordination work within Python's community.

### Make setuptools the reference implementation of the distutils API

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