Request: Provide an official way to *deprecate* a crate. NOT yank. Yank is stupid
Rust Internals [Unofficial]
April 17, 2026
I think that any maintenance flag should decay over time. Otherwise one could set a crate as maintained, forget about it for 5 years, and the whole time the crate shows up as maintained. The system does not work if the information isn't up to date.
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