Would you want crates.io/cargo publish to enforce strictly correct SemVer conventions?

• semver

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  Semantic Versioning Specification

  

No. If some automated system should verify versioning according to rules, those rules can't be SemVer 2.0.0, because SemVer 2.0.0 is not automatically verifiable. To quote the spec;

• rust-semverver

  8 641 1.7 Rust

  Discontinued Automatic checking for semantic versioning in library crates

  

In my case it wasn't so bad and an easy fix was fast to write, but it got me thinking of how much of a problem this is for the wider ecosystem. Some searching showed me, that of course there is a tool rust-semverver to do exactly that. Sadly it errors on my system (or maybe im just using it wrong). Would've been interesting to see how often this actually happens on crates.io and how much of a problem this really is.

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• crates.io

  662 2,811 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package registry

  

In my case it wasn't so bad and an easy fix was fast to write, but it got me thinking of how much of a problem this is for the wider ecosystem. Some searching showed me, that of course there is a tool rust-semverver to do exactly that. Sadly it errors on my system (or maybe im just using it wrong). Would've been interesting to see how often this actually happens on crates.io and how much of a problem this really is.

• rfcs

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  RFCs for changes to Rust

  

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