Request: Provide an official way to *deprecate* a crate. NOT yank. Yank is stupid
Rust Internals [Unofficial]
April 17, 2026
If we are to introduce such status, I think it should be possible to ping it using CI or even periodically update it automatically using last commit date (if the repository field is provided). In other words, if there is some activity in repository usually we can consider the crate as "maintained" even if there are no new releases.
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