# How do I deprecate a package?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, package, deprecation
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129 "2018-08-27T12:57:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/1 "2018-08-27T12:57:53Z")
I have decided that it does not make sense anymore to maintain [Dopri.jl](https://github.com/helgee/Dopri.jl). All use cases are covered (much better) by the DifferentialEquations.jl ecosystem.
How do I deprecate the package? So far I have:
- Put a notice on the README
- Set the repository to archived
- What else?
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/2 "2018-08-27T13:21:11Z")
Set an upper bound to supported julia versions
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### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/3 "2018-08-27T13:37:14Z")
E.g. `julia 0.5 0.6`? (I am not even sure if it worked on 0.6 🤷♂️)
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/4 "2018-08-27T13:43:42Z")
Yes. The upper bound should be excluded, so it should be completely fine even if it didn’t work on 0.6
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/5 "2018-08-27T13:51:08Z")
Remember you have also to tag a new release to make this change effective 😅 I’d also suggest to print a warning whenever loading the package, suggesting to move to differentalequations
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-deprecate-a-package/14129/6 "2018-08-27T14:47:40Z")
Actually it’s not necessary to tag a new release. Instead, just send a PR to metadata to add the upper bound to _all_ released versions of the package.