A crate that exists on crates.io does not exist on docs.rs

[kornelski]

This crate is on crates.io:

https://crates.io/crates/emheap

but docs.rs reports "The requested crate does not exist: no such crate".

https://docs.rs/emheap

This is surprising. The crate isn't yanked. It's in the index. Usually even if crates fail to build docs.rs shows some basic page for it.

[kornelski]

It may be because the crate has cargo.toml (lowercase).

[Nemo157]

We do have the failure to build after publish in the queue:

   id   |  name  | version | attempt |         build_time         | priority | registry | last_attempt
--------+--------+---------+---------+----------------------------+----------+----------+--------------
 516293 | emheap | 0.1.0   |       5 | 2022-04-20 04:08:29.528233 |        0 |          |
 516306 | emheap | 0.1.1   |       5 | 2022-04-20 04:45:52.937317 |        0 |          |

I'll requeue it to be built against and see if there's anything interesting in the logs.

[Nemo157]

Yep, the failure is because it's missing the Cargo.toml:

Failed to build package emheap-0.1.0 from queue
Caused by:
    missing Cargo.toml

I don't think we should do anything about this, the crate is invalid, downloading locally cargo also refuses to do anything with it

> cargo metadata
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `/tmp/scratch.rust.2024-04-08T09-58.Yi6HRM/emheap-0.1.1` or any parent directory, but found cargo.toml please try to rename it to Cargo.toml

[Nemo157]

It not appearing in the database at all because of the failure is another variant of https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs/issues/797, which will be fixed by https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs/pull/2467, so it should appear as a build failure once that's done.

[Nemo157]

Hmmm, actually #2467 won't fix it since that still relies on reading the Cargo.toml to pull the minimum data required to add the crate into the database.

[byfnoel]

Hey @kornelski. I fixed the issue on the provided example with this change. This issue might be a candidate to close.

[kornelski]

@byfnoel thanks, but I'll leave it open, because docs.rs needs to decide what to do with this kind of problems in crates in general, not only yours.

[byfnoel]

Ok @kornelski. That's fine!

[syphar]

@byfnoel thanks, but I'll leave it open, because docs.rs needs to decide what to do with this kind of problems in crates in general, not only yours.

coming back to this issue.

Our current plan with #2467 is that we would finally surface these kind of errors the same way as "normal" build errors. So the crate would appear, the version would too, and only showed as failed with the error above ( "could not find Cargo.toml...")

Also after #2467 we'll be able to run our consistency check, so we would also add past releases / crates where this happened.