[Rust] Re: Futures 0.2 has been yanked
On 07/01/2018 12:10 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
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?
Often yanking means there was a serious problem with that release. I
think in most cases that would be followed by a fixed release, so the
distro could just update further, but it would still be nice for us to
have some notification that this happened.