# METADATA.jl cleaning
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/metadata-jl-cleaning/19614
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/metadata-jl-cleaning/19614 "2019-01-14T11:29:00Z")
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### Author:  [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/metadata-jl-cleaning/19614/1 "2019-01-14T11:29:01Z")
Hi guys!
I am just wondering how is the process of “cleaning” METADATA.jl. For example, there are some packages that does not even work with Julia v1.0. Is there a policy regarding this? Is it even a problem?
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### Author:  [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/metadata-jl-cleaning/19614/2 "2019-01-14T11:53:47Z")
METADATA is used for versions prior to 1.0 - “cleaning” them would break package installation for anyone on older versions.
Eventually, we’re going to move off of METADATA to a general registry (and any number of other registries), but for now I don’t think it matters. Especially because we don’t have to clone METADATA to use it anymore (see the Pkg video from last year’s juliacon).