What to do when an actively maintained package requires an obsolete package?

Question

I've recently requested the IT guys to upgrade my texlive version to 2018, and now I noticed that it always throws a warning:

Package remreset Warning: The remreset package is obsolete: (remreset) \@removefomresset is defined.

Since I've never even heard about remreset before, I found this to be a bit confusing. Upon a bit of digging up, I figured out that aliascnt is where the fault lies. And since I use this quite often in my documents, I see this warning being thrown at me constantly when I compile things here at the office.

What can I do about this warning? What should I do about this warning?

Since downgrading/upgrading things requires hassling the IT guys, my preference is to minimize the amount of emails I need to send to them about the topic.

(Let me also say that I have an immense difficulty ignoring warnings when I compile things, so this one little warning is likely to drive me crazy until it's gone.)

Answer 1

Once you are reassured that the specific warning is innocuous and will be most likely fixed in the near future, you can silence the warning: add

\RequirePackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{remreset}{The remreset package}

at the very top of your document.

Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{aliascnt}
\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}

will produce the following console output:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 5
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/aliascnt.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/remreset.sty

Package remreset Warning: The remreset package is obsolete:
(remreset)                \@removefomresset is defined.

))
No file test.aux.
[1{/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./test.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/
cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10450 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

Instead

\RequirePackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{remreset}{The remreset package}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{aliascnt}
\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}

will produce

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 5
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/silence/silence.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/aliascnt.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/carlisle/remreset.sty))
(./test.aux) [1{/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdft
ex.map}] (./test.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/
amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10450 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.