Cargo can find cargo-clippy when searching, but not when installing

[nertpinx]

Output of the commands follows:

$ cargo search cargo-clippy 
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
cargo-clippy (0.2.2)    A subcommand for cargo to perform linting on cargo projects. Can be used as a substitution for cargo-check.
clippy (0.0.120)        A bunch of helpful lints to avoid common pitfalls in Rust
$ cargo install cargo-clippy
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
error: could not find `cargo-clippy` in `registry https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`

[alexcrichton]

Out of curiosity do you have .cargo/config with a replace-with active? Otherwise I'm not entirely sure what'd cause this...

[alexcrichton]

Er wait nevermind, turns out cargo-clippy is yanked, and search isn't respecting that by default.

[carols10cents]

I think the real fix for this will be in crates.io, namely: rust-lang/crates.io#1058, if that is fixed, cargo search would say cargo-clippy (0.0.0) this crate has been yanked or similar. I think it's important to still return yanked crates in searches in case the reason you're doing a search is to see if the crate name has been taken or not.

Closing in favor of rust-lang/crates.io#1058, please continue any discussion there!