Deprecate old nuget packages

[Romfos]

Hi,

Now we have a lot of old nuget packages, starting from 2011 year.
Now nuget have depreciation feature.
I've propose to do following actions:

1. Mark as depricated all packages before 6.0.0
2. Mark as depricated all beta\rc packages (non-release version) and unlist them (they will be hidden on search UI, but still available)

Motivation:
Nuget will have depreciation warning during restore + warning icon in search window in package explorer.
Because this versions are outdated this is good mechanism ask people to migrate to never and supported versions

Nuget package link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/gherkin/#versions-body-tab

Version	Downloads	Last updated
26.0.1	0	3 hours ago
26.0.0	0	4 hours ago
25.0.2	11,248	a month ago
25.0.1	1,930	a month ago
25.0.0	136	a month ago
24.1.0	10,844	2 months ago
23.0.1	122,505	9 months ago
23.0.0	2,042	9 months ago
22.0.0	181,995	23/09/2021
20.0.1	59,966	19/07/2021
20.0.0	3,564	08/07/2021
19.0.3	7,560,194	24/05/2021
19.0.2	3,909	19/05/2021
6.0.0	14,422,703	25/03/2019
6.0.0-beta1	239,546	22/11/2018
5.1.0	123,796	30/05/2018
5.0.0	260,800	13/10/2017
4.1.4-rc1	1,272	04/10/2017
4.0.0	50,049	10/04/2016
3.2.0	5,589	12/01/2016
3.1.2	9,580	03/10/2015
3.1.1	1,601	03/09/2015
3.1.0	1,787	15/08/2015
2.12.2	2,154	12/10/2013
2.12.1	1,682	10/08/2013
2.12.0	1,523	21/04/2013
2.11.8	1,431	09/04/2013
2.11.7	1,457	05/04/2013
2.11.6	1,499	29/01/2013
2.11.5	1,702	14/10/2012
2.11.4	1,567	09/10/2012
2.11.3	1,638	08/10/2012
2.11.2	1,604	17/08/2012
2.11.1	1,504	23/06/2012
2.11.0	1,545	08/06/2012
2.10.0	1,505	07/05/2012
2.9.3	1,537	26/03/2012
2.9.2	1,599	26/03/2012
2.9.1	1,538	16/03/2012
2.9.0	2,367	20/02/2012
2.8.0	1,489	18/02/2012
2.7.7	2,142	08/02/2012
2.7.6	1,593	25/01/2012
2.7.5	1,552	25/01/2012
2.7.4	1,565	20/01/2012
2.7.3	1,610	12/01/2012
2.7.2	1,564	05/01/2012
2.7.1	1,580	10/12/2011
2.6.9	1,586	03/12/2011
2.6.8	1,598	23/11/2011
2.6.7	1,587	22/11/2011
2.6.6	6,247	19/11/2011

[mpkorstanje]

This is kinda cool. We didn't know this existed.

While these releases are old, we don't believe there is anything wrong with these. What would be a good reason for deprecation?

[Romfos]

Yea, this is relatively new feature on nuget

Example:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore/
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Newtonsoft.Json

You can specify or do not specify exact reason.
In any case not sure that we will provide technical support\bugfix for such old version

Good to hear another opinions :)

[mpkorstanje]

We don't provide bug fixes for anything but the latest release anyway. 😄

Nuget is already able inform users their version is old. So I don't see much value in a bunch of admin work.