Fix "ignoring test" warning with "cargo publish"

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The rust_xlsxwriter crate has a lot of Excel xlsx files that are used for testing and that I would prefer to omit from the published package to reduce the size (-12MB):

$ du -hs tests/input
12M    tests/input

In order to do that I put the following exclude in Cargo.toml:

exclude = ["tests/**/*"]

That excludes the xlsx files for testing and also the integration test files but gives the following warning on cargo publish:

$ cargo publish --dry-run
    Updating crates.io index
   Packaging rust_xlsxwriter v0.92.2 (/path/rust/rust_xlsxwriter)

warning: ignoring test `integration` as `tests/integration/main.rs` 
         is not included in the published package

...

Is there a way to avoid this warning so that I only see other warnings before publishing?

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You could move that to an unpublished crate in the same workspace.

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The issue for this is Warnings for implicit tests and examples on cargo package/publish causes extra noise · Issue #14290 · rust-lang/cargo · GitHub

While I'm not seeing it in the thread, most likely we'd turn this into a lint after User control over cargo warnings · Issue #12235 · rust-lang/cargo · GitHub is resolved.