Call it how you want, the point is that it should not disappear like this. Maybe yanked has the meaning you said, but in Ruby yanked has the meaning OP said and that is what we want.

How to call it then : Yanked hard vs yanked soft ?

Crates.io currently says:

> A new version of the arrayref crate was published with a direct dependency on proc-macro1, which would execute a malicious build script.

> This compromised version was published on 2026-08-20 and removed approximately 86 minutes later, with no evidence of actual usage.

I don't know what more you want. Do you want the malicious version to continue to be available?

> I don't know what more you want.

The version page [1] should show that for 86 minutes there was a version 0.3.10, it was malicious and was deleted with a link to the advisory. I get this takes time so even a generic "deleted" entry until they have time to link in the advisory would also be fine so we know something is happening.

Presumably even "deleted" crate versions still have some metadata left behind in the backend so this should be surfaced.

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/arrayref/versions