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76 | 76 | For security reasons, the crates.io team will not transfer ownership of existing crates without the explicit
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| - <p>Crate deletion by their owners is not possible to keep the registry as immutable as possible. If you want to flag |
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| - description communicating to the crates.io support team that you consent to transfer the crate to the first person who |
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| - Keep in mind that the new owner might develop your crate in a way you never intended it, or might completely |
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| 79 | + <p>If you are the author of a crate that another person wants to take over: keep in mind that the new owner might |
| 80 | + develop your crate in a way you never intended it, or might completely repurpose your crate. Transferring a crate |
| 81 | + to a malicious user could have a significant impact for any existing users of your crate.</p> |
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| 83 | + <p>Crate owners can delete their crates under certain conditions: the crate has been published for less than 72 hours, or |
| 84 | + the crate only has a single owner, the crate has been downloaded less than 500 times for each month it has been |
| 85 | + published, and the crate is not depended upon by any other crate on crates.io. If these conditions are not met, the |
| 86 | + crate will not be deleted. In exceptional cases crate owners may contact < a href="mailto:[email protected]">the crates.io |
| 87 | + team</a> to request deletion of a crate that does not meet these conditions.</p> |
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94 | 89 | <p>The crates.io team may delete crates from the registry that do not comply with the policies on this document. In
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95 | 90 | larger cases of squatting attacks this may happen without prior notification to the author, but in most cases the team
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