On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org> wrote:

> > 3. release project.0.3.1, keeping project.0.3 unchanged
>
> The problem is that `project.0.3` will be broken for ever, as well as all
> dependencies that depend on this particular version.
>
> Maybe there is actually some misunderstanding, and we're talking about
> different things. Just to clarify, are you going to go
> through opam-repository and update all archives of old libraries (e.g.
> sexplib.7.0.5, sexplib.108.00, ...) and remove `<library>.syntax`
> findlib library from it? This is what I'm afraid of. And this is what I
> name "retroactively".
> As according to the PR there is nothing like this. If all old archives
> will be still available, then it is perfectly fine.
>

​Indeed, I misunderstood your original ​question. Sorry about that.
We definitely won't touch the archive of any released package. I agree that
would be disastrous...

-- 
Jeremie