# Shouldn't there be a warning when package can't update to latest?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shouldnt-there-be-a-warning-when-package-cant-update-to-latest/51446>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shouldnt-there-be-a-warning-when-package-cant-update-to-latest/51446 "2020-12-08T09:24:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shouldnt-there-be-a-warning-when-package-cant-update-to-latest/51446/2 "2020-12-08T09:51:05Z")

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> [@HenriDeh](#):
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> Has this been discussed ?

Yes, a couple of days ago here:

> [@Very fancy package updating 1.6](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/very-fancy-package-updating-1-6/51227/15):
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> You are right. Sorry. It is the damn dependencies: it pulled 8.2.6, which I thought was okay. But apparently the new one is 0.9… I will then rephrase my previously stated opinion: we need some way of detecting newer package versions.

See in particular

> [@Very fancy package updating 1.6](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/very-fancy-package-updating-1-6/51227/28):
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> [https://github.com/GunnarFarneback/PackageCompatUI.jl](https://github.com/GunnarFarneback/PackageCompatUI.jl) is also useful for this purpose. Packages that have newer versions than specified by [compat] are shown in yellow and you can update Project.toml directly from the UI. (This package is Julia 1.6 only and won’t be registered until 1.6 has been released.)

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