This is incorrect...I'll send a better reply from home, but the obsolete file 
lists the packages that supersede the one being marked obsolete. Only the 
package marked obsolete should be deregistered. The others remain valid.

Thanks
-Ben

Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Please read: Wanted to toss this out to other maintainers, before we officially 
start doing it, in about a day or so. Ben and I have been chatting about our 
use of _stub packages. So far, we have come to an agreement that the best thing 
to do as far as registering them, would seem to be, to NOT register them. This 
means, what will happen will be: When you upload a _stub package for release, 
the registration process will attempt to look at the "obsolete" file, if 
present. It will then DEREGISTER from our web databases, both the sub package 
itself, and any packages referenced by the "obsolete" file. This is in order to 
free up the filename space, for the presumed new, "proper" package that will 
most likely contain those files. This is beneficial for us for multiple 
reasons; one of which being that we will avoid having literally hundreds of 
"xxx_stub" packages littering up mantis, 
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