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False\n```\n\n## Observed\n\nRubyGems supports `gem yank` (pulling a published version, typically within a short window\nor for security reasons), but unlike PyPI's PEP 591/692 `yanked`/`yanked_reason` fields that\nkeep the version visible with an explicit marker, RubyGems' `versions.json` carries **no\nyanked field whatsoever** — a yanked version is simply absent from the array, exactly as if\nit had never been published. There is no ghost timestamp (contrast with npm's `time` object\nsurviving a version's removal from `versions`) and no placeholder entry (contrast with npm's\nsecurity-holding-package pattern). 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