I'm looking for guidance on the current process for requesting ownership of an abandoned and broken crate name on crates.io.
I'm interested in publishing a new crate but this name is currently taken by an abandoned crate that appears to be broken:
Current state of the crate:
- Last updated: Over 4 years ago (approaching 5 years in April)
- Only one release (v0.1.0) using Rust edition 2018
- Source code repository is no longer available (either private or deleted)
- No readme or documentation
- The crate is actually broken - missing lib target making it unusable as a dependency:
I understand the traditional process involved opening an issue on rust-lang/crates.io-index, but I can't find this repository anymore. Could someone point me to the current process for requesting ownership of an abandoned crate name?
Thank you for any guidance on the current process!