Description
So I think the next piece of code for helping with stabilization has to do with teaching cargo that the two URLs registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index and sparse+https://index.crates.io/ are equivalent. Specifically making sure that lock files only show one even if both are available, and that you can successfully publish with either configured.
Testing with a .cargo/config.toml of:
[source.crates-io]
replace-with = "crates-io-http"
[source.crates-io-http]
registry = "sparse+https://index.crates.io/"
and it generates a lock file that has:
[[package]]
name = "serde"
version = "1.0.137"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
checksum = "61ea8d54c77f8315140a05f4c7237403bf38b72704d031543aa1d16abbf517d1"
So I don't think this is going to be super difficult. What I want is for cargo to act as if that override was set if -Z http-registry is passed (and no explicit override was set).
We may end up fixing the issue with publishing where there's a replacement as we work on this, but I think this will end up being implemented through a somewhat different code path. It will do the same thing as having a replacement, but it will not be implemented as literally a replacement. (Or if it is, cargo will know this one special and to treat it differently.)
cc: #9069