Igor Gnatenko:
> Hey,
>
> Recently upstream of "futures" crate yanked all 0.2 releases and pushed
> them as "futures-preview". I wonder what we should do in regard to this…
>
> Also there is no way to get automatic notifications whether upstream has
> yanked something, we probably want to build some automation in anitya.
>
> Thoughts?
>

AFAIU yanking just means that no new crates can be published that depend on it, but old crates that still depend on it will still be able to access it in order to satisfy the dependency requirements. Distros should just be able to ignore the yanking?