Duplicated crates of rust-gmp ?

[yvan-sraka]

I'm a bit confused, looking on https://crates.io/ for a rust wrapper for the GMP library I found both:

• rust-gmp = "0.5.0"
• gmp = "0.3.1"

linking this GitHub repository!

[fizyk20]

Oh, interesting. I haven't been aware of gmp, somebody else published that. I'm only the owner of rust-gmp.

[tcharding]

I've investigated this issue, findings are:

• March 2014 @fizyk20 publishes v0.3.0 under package name rust-gmp
• July 2016: Someone called xcodevn publishes v0.3.1 under package name gmp
• xcodevn disappeared off of github or crates.io 4 years ago, there is an xcodevn on reddit so I messaged him to see if its the same person.

It would be nice to get gmp deleted from crates.io. If I can manage that would you consider re-publishing this as gmp @fizyk20? (Seems like a nice convention to call the repo rust-foo and the package plain foo.)

EDIT: Oooh, you use #![crate_name = "gmp"] to imitate this behaviour - boy that was confusing me.

[ghost]

Hi! I'm xcodevn the owner of gmp package on crates.io. It seems that 4 years ago, I cloned fizyk20 repo and published it on crates.io. I don't remember why did I do that but it is my fault.

I've just tried to delete gmp package but not successful, crates.io prevents the deletion of packages to avoid dependency problems. So I've yanked the package instead! If anyone knows how to delete a package on crates.io, please let me know.

I'm also happy to transfer the ownership to @fizyk20, so this repo can be published under gmp name if @fizyk20 wants to do so.

[tcharding]

Legend, thanks! I read that we can contact the humans at crates.io and they might fix it up for us, if that's what we want to do.

[andersk]

Avoiding dependency problems is a good reason to prevent deletion of packages! We shouldn’t request to override that just to make things tidier (nor, I expect, would such a request be approved).

[tcharding]

Avoiding dependency problems is a good reason to prevent deletion of packages! We shouldn’t request to override that just to make things tidier (nor, I expect, would such a request be approved).

Is it in anyone's best interest to be depending on a stale crate (here v0.3.1), possibly accidentally? Wouldn't it be better for users of gmp if this crate was yanked to force them to either update or depend on a version where they can control more than just a single version?

[vks]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 09:38 Tobin C. Harding ***@***.***> wrote: Avoiding dependency problems is a *good reason* to prevent deletion of packages! We shouldn’t request to override that just to make things tidier (nor, I expect, would such a request be approved). Is it in anyone's best interest to be depending on a stale crate (here v0.3.1), possibly accidentally?

This is already achieved for any new dependencies by yanking the crate. The advantage is that it does not break builds.

Wouldn't it be better for users of gmp if this crate was yanked to force them to either update or depend on a version where they can control more than just a single version?

I think it was already yanked?

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[tcharding]

I think this issue is now resolved and can be closed since @xcodevn yanked gmp.