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Change crates.io policy to not offer crate transfer mediation #9530

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This PR implements rust-lang/rfcs#3646. For some reason I thought this had already been implemented, but I just stumbled upon that section in the policies and was surprised that it was still in there... 😅

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current owner agrees, they can add you as an owner of the crate, and you can then remove them, if necessary. If the
current owner is not reachable or has not published any contact information the crates.io team may reach out to help
mediate the process of the ownership transfer.</p>
<p>If you want to take over a package, we recommend you try and contact the current owner directly. If the
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I'd suggest making the implied explicit, something like "For security reasons, the crates.io team will not change ownership of existing usable non-malicious crates." I guess the devil is in the details of the adjectives to use here?

This PR implements rust-lang/rfcs#3646. For some reason I thought this had already been implemented, but I just stumbled upon that section in the policies and was surprised that it was still in there... 😅
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@Turbo87 Turbo87 merged commit 103d06d into rust-lang:main Sep 30, 2024
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