replace silently ignores parts of the version

[nrc]

If you try and replace a crate with a version more complex than x.y.z, the parts of the version other than x.y.z are ignored, which usually means the replace does not match any crates and has no effect (Cargo warns about this).

E.g., grpcio:0.5.0-alpha.3 will not match deps with version = "0.5.0-alpha.3"

[ehuss]

Considering replace is mostly deprecated, I imagine it may be unlikely that effort will go into fixing this. There are also several known issues with how pre-release versions are handled, which may be the root of this problem.

Can [patch] work for you instead?

[epage]

As replace is deprecated and without further information in several years on if patch would instead work, I'm going to go ahead and close this. If there is a reason to keep this open, let us know!