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Already happened a few times that I found a name that seemingly is free, so showing a 404 on pubdev. I develop my package, polish it, get it ready for shipment. But when I try publishing, pubdev blocks it, because another package with a similar name already exists.

How am I supposed to know? "Rebranding" a package is not always easy. It would be very good if there was a way of checking avaliability. A small message on the 404 that reads along the lines of "did you mean xyz", or something integrated into the CLI, as described in dart-lang/pub#3966