[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017828: cargo: Fails to update the crates index after the index was squashed

[Uli Schlachter]

Package: cargo
Version: 0.57.0-7+b1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: psychon at znc.in

Hi,

recently I tried to update some dependencies of a crate and cargo e.g. 
claimed that libc 0.2.126 is the newest version, even though 0.2.127 was 
released on August 3rd. I reported [#11009] about this. Someone from 
upstream then suggested that this is related to the update from libgit2 
1.1 to libgit 1.3 [#9976] and that this issue was already fixed upstream 
a while ago [#9979]. If I understand GitHub's UI correctly, the fix is 
part of cargo 1.59.

Apparently, somewhere between libgit2 and cargo, something with forced 
pushes... happens? I did not really understand the details.

Cheers,
Uli

[#11009]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/11009
[#9976]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/9976
[#9979]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9979

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 
'experimental'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE 
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cargo depends on:
ii  binutils               2.38.90.20220713-2
ii  clang                  1:14.0-55.1
ii  clang-13 [c-compiler]  1:13.0.1-7
ii  clang-14 [c-compiler]  1:14.0.6-2
ii  gcc [c-compiler]       4:12.1.0-3
ii  gcc-10 [c-compiler]    10.4.0-4
ii  gcc-11 [c-compiler]    11.3.0-5
ii  gcc-12 [c-compiler]    12.1.0-8
ii  gcc-8 [c-compiler]     8.4.0-7
ii  gcc-9 [c-compiler]     9.4.0-2
ii  libc6                  2.34-3
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.84.0-2
ii  libgcc-s1              12.1.0-8
ii  libgit2-1.3            1.3.0+dfsg.1-3
ii  libssh2-1              1.10.0-3+b1
ii  libssl3                3.0.5-2
ii  rustc                  1.59.0+dfsg1-2
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4

cargo recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cargo suggests:
pn  cargo-doc  <none>
ii  python3    3.10.5-3

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-- 
I'd be delighted to offer any advice I can. When I have some, I'll let 
you know.