Why not set `opam-version` in the package to something greater than 1.2 to
avoid the package from being used there ? Isn't it the goal of that field ?

Deprecating a whole version probably still used by some users sounds quite
overkill just to fix one package.

--Fabrice


On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:29 AM Thomas Gazagnaire <tho...@gazagnaire.org>
wrote:

> I think it is time to deprecate opam 1.2.0. What do you think?
>
> See https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/6888 for a recent
> issue: it doesn’t understand the `pinned` variable. This could be fixed by
> adding a rewriting layer between 1.2.2 and 1.2.0 and adding a redirection
> based on the version number (we already do that for opam 1.1) but that’s a
> lot of efforts for not much gains. So I’m in favour of simply not
> supporting 1.2.0 anymore.
>
> If you are still using 1.2.0 please complain now :-)
>
> Thomas
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