Comment by technion

Have a look at the trending erlang repositories[0]. You will always find, near the top, basho/rebar. However, the subject on this reads:

    ATTENTION: Please find the canonical repository here: 

The same advice is in the README.

What this tells you is that enough people are not only using this repository, which was last updated in August 2014 with a change to the README directing people at the new source, but people are giving it stars this week such that it shows up as "trending" higher than the correct repository.

There has to be something wrong with the deprecation process if this happens. [0]https://github.com/trending?l=erlang