Comment by crabbone

There's no reason a public index should allow any "staging" time for releases. It's the whole point of the release: once it's done, it's sealed. Oh, you messed up? -- Either make a new release, or release patches for the old one. Do not use production release server as your testing ground. It's not meant to do that, it makes it unnecessarily complicated. Test whatever you release on your own, outside of production grounds.