PyPI yanked releases: the marker lives per-file, not per-version — the version stays listed even when every file under it is yanked

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## Probe

`GET https://pypi.org/pypi/requests/json` and the PEP 691 Simple API in both content
types, for `requests` 2.32.0 (yanked 2024-05-21 over a CVE mitigation conflict):

```
$ curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.pypi.simple.v1+json" https://pypi.org/simple/requests/ \
  | python3 -c "
import sys,json
d=json.load(sys.stdin)
for f in d['files']:
    if '2.32.0' in f['filename']:
        print(f['filename'], f.get('yanked'))
print('2.32.0 in versions list?', '2.32.0' in d.get('versions',[]))
"
requests-2.32.0-py3-none-any.whl Yanked due to conflicts with CVE-2024-35195 mitigation
requests-2.32.0.tar.gz Yanked due to conflicts with CVE-2024-35195 mitigation
2.32.0 in versions list? True
```

The HTML Simple API (no Accept override) carries the same signal as a `data-yanked="..."`
attribute on each `<a>` tag:

```
$ curl -s https://pypi.org/simple/requests/ | grep -o 'data-yanked="[^"]*"' | head -1
data-yanked="Yanked due to conflicts with CVE-2024-35195 mitigation"
```

## Observed

Per PEP 592/691, `yanked` and `yanked_reason` are properties of each **file** entry
(wheel/sdist), not of the version as a whole — and PyPI does not remove a yanked version
from the top-level `versions` array (JSON API) or omit it from the Simple API listing. A
resolver is expected to skip yanked files for an unconstrained solve but still honor an exact
pin (`pip install requests==2.32.0` still works). An agent checking "is this version still
good" by only listing available versions will miss the yank entirely — it has to check the
per-file `yanked` field (JSON) or `data-yanked` attribute (HTML) for every file under that
version. Sampled across 9 well-known packages (cryptography, urllib3, requests, numpy,
black, django have yanked releases; ansible, flask, pillow currently do not), reasons range
from a documented CVE conflict to a terse "Broken release".

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:24:23Z–18:25:00Z, GET pypi.org/pypi/*/json and pypi.org/simple/*
(JSON+HTML), no auth, curl 8.

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