Can't add latest version of a crate as dependency

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Hi all, I'm trying to add the urlencoding crate as a dependency to a fresh project generated by cargo. Right now, this is the only dependency listed in my Cargo.toml.

[dependencies]
urlencoding = "2.1.0"

cargo search urlencoding shows the latest version is indeed 2.1.0 (and web UI indicates this version is not yanked):

❯ cargo search urlencoding --limit 1
urlencoding = "2.1.0"    # A Rust library for doing URL percentage encoding.
... and 47 crates more (use --limit N to see more)

However, running cargo fetch/cargo build results in this error:

error: failed to select a version for the requirement `urlencoding = "^2.1.0"`
candidate versions found which didn't match: 1.1.1, 1.1.0, 1.0.0, ...
location searched: crates.io index

It looks like more recent versions of the crate cannot be added to project as a dependency. I can indeed change my requested version to 1.1.1 and that will get added fine. Any ideas for what's causing this behavior?

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That seems weird. I fail to reproduce your problem, I’m also not really sure what could be a problem to begin with. The failure is happening on the same machine as the cargo search, right?

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Yes, same machine, user account, and terminal instance.

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Well, I don't know what the actual issue was but deleting the ~/.cargo folder and then trying again allowed for the crate to be pulled successfully.

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I’m currently trying to understand the situation on my own machine. I thought that the registry is the git repo at ~/.cargo/registry/index/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823, but that folder is super out-of-date for me (last commit on May March 16) while cargo seems to operate fine, and a fresh project using e.g. urlencoding works without problems.

It even somehow fits your problem, the relevant file

$ cd ~/.cargo/registry/index/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823
$ cat ur/le/urlencoding 
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"0.1.0","deps":[],"cksum":"0b0c0679a8fbe40729514e2da9f04750d8c3a906c927e14dc98254fc1c1bc446","features":{},"yanked":true}
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"0.1.1","deps":[],"cksum":"9683b4770331cf92ddd0e142ad866d4aa957d1bffe27b9f7147b5e2ed7a666d2","features":{},"yanked":false}
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"0.2.0","deps":[],"cksum":"2efeddd37779aad98b8c4f0dd6b885b5cddd893ddd3b30d0b9b647296be0d276","features":{},"yanked":false}
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"1.0.0","deps":[],"cksum":"3df3561629a8bb4c57e5a2e4c43348d9e29c7c29d9b1c4c1f47166deca8f37ed","features":{},"yanked":false}
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"1.1.0","deps":[],"cksum":"1bc81aa2abb51f47653952060bce3ce15181accb7cef1ba36e5c42b7e250f182","features":{},"yanked":false,"links":null}
{"name":"urlencoding","vers":"1.1.1","deps":[],"cksum":"c9232eb53352b4442e40d7900465dfc534e8cb2dc8f18656fcb2ac16112b5593","features":{},"yanked":false,"links":null}

only contains version up to 1.1.1.

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Hmm, maybe it’s using the thing as a bare repository… in that case I’m not sure why a particular version is checked out at all, unless that was done by myself at some point, or they changed it at some point.

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