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by kibwen 1208 days ago
Indeed, anyone can list whatever URL they want as the "repository" on the crates.io page for any page they link. There's not much of an alternative, given that crates.io is designed to be immutable, and the internet in general is not. (At best, crates.io could provide a link to a browser-rendered directory tree of the code that crates.io has on hand for any given version.)