Skip clean up profile.release.package."*"

src/bin/cargo/commands/remove.rs

@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ fn gc_workspace(workspace: &Workspace<'_>) -> CargoResult<()> {
     //
     // Example tables:
     // - profile.dev.package.foo
-    // - profile.release.package."*"
     // - profile.release.package."foo:2.1.0"
     if let Some(toml_edit::Item::Table(profile_section_table)) = manifest.get_mut("profile") {
         profile_section_table.set_implicit(true);
@@ -231,8 +230,14 @@ fn gc_workspace(workspace: &Workspace<'_>) -> CargoResult<()> {
                     package_table.set_implicit(true);
 
                     for (key, item) in package_table.iter_mut() {
+                        let key = key.get();
+                        // Skip globs. Can't do anything with them.
+                        // For example, profile.release.package."*".
+                        if crate::util::restricted_names::is_glob_pattern(key) {
+                            continue;
+                        }
                         if !spec_has_match(
-                            &PackageIdSpec::parse(key.get())?,
+                            &PackageIdSpec::parse(key)?,
                             &dependencies,
                             workspace.config(),
                         )? {

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/mod.rs

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ mod optional_dep_feature;
 mod optional_feature;
 mod package;
 mod remove_basic;
+mod skip_gc_glob_profile;
 mod target;
 mod target_build;
 mod target_dev;

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/skip_gc_glob_profile/in/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[package]
+name = "cargo-remove-test-fixture"
+version = "0.1.0"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "main"
+path = "src/main.rs"
+
+[dependencies]
+toml = "0.1"
+
+[profile.dev.package."*"]
+opt-level = 3

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/skip_gc_glob_profile/in/src/lib.rs

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/skip_gc_glob_profile/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+use cargo_test_support::compare::assert_ui;
+use cargo_test_support::curr_dir;
+use cargo_test_support::CargoCommand;
+use cargo_test_support::Project;
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn case() {
+    cargo_test_support::registry::init();
+    cargo_test_support::registry::Package::new("toml", "0.1.1+my-package").publish();
+
+    let project = Project::from_template(curr_dir!().join("in"));
+    let project_root = project.root();
+    let cwd = &project_root;
+
+    snapbox::cmd::Command::cargo_ui()
+        .arg("remove")
+        .args(["toml"])
+        .current_dir(cwd)
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .stdout_matches_path(curr_dir!().join("stdout.log"))
+        .stderr_matches_path(curr_dir!().join("stderr.log"));
+
+    assert_ui().subset_matches(curr_dir!().join("out"), &project_root);
+}

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/skip_gc_glob_profile/out/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[package]
+name = "cargo-remove-test-fixture"
+version = "0.1.0"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "main"
+path = "src/main.rs"
+
+[profile.dev.package."*"]
+opt-level = 3

tests/testsuite/cargo_remove/skip_gc_glob_profile/stderr.log

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+    Removing toml from dependencies