RUSTSEC-2021-0133
(unmaintained)
on 2021-12-25: cargo-download is unmaintained
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The cargo download subcommand (via cargo-download crate) is broken and maintainer has disappeared from GitHub and hasn't had any commits for a year.
Using this downloader will result to corrupted crates.
Maintainer has not responded to maintenance takeover.
Just use wget / curl directly.