[briansmith]

In a properly-designed CI/CD system, a dependency getting yanked isn't an emergency unless you choose to treat it as such. In particular, if you don't want your build to fail because some dependency got yanked then you need to use a Cargo.lock, and you need to ensure that you're not overzealous in your use of cargo-deny and similar tools.

I'm not sure if you were affected by this, but Cargo introduced a (regression) bug a couple years ago that caused it to fail when a crate got yanked when it shouldn't have. This bug was eventually fixed, but lots of people blamed ring for this bug. If this Cargo bug hadn't been introduced then most people who were using Cargo correctly wouldn't have been negatively affected by ring's old policy.