Integrating this toolkit into Bari 206 surfaced two things the template
could not express, both of which would have produced wrong output.
**AUTHOR.** Cargo's authors entry names whoever wrote the plugin; VENDOR
is the organisation that ships it. Bari 206 separates them - "Mikkeli
Matlock" authored it, "Novoyuuparosk" vends it - while this template only
happened to work because its two placeholders were identical. AUTHOR is
now its own value defaulting to VENDOR, pinned in branding.conf only when
it actually differs so the file keeps showing that it derives.
**Site-directed rewriting.** That default is exactly what broke the
rename: with AUTHOR defaulting to VENDOR, both fields hold the same old
string, and a global value substitution cannot tell which occurrence
belongs to which. Renaming the vendor put the org name in the authors
field.
The site table already holds the old resolved literal for every site it
owns, and regeneration produces the new one, so rewriting by that pair is
unambiguous. brand-plugin.sh now does that first and falls back to value
substitution for everything the table does not enumerate - doc comments,
use sites in other modules, prose. The order matters and is load-bearing:
run the global pass first and it consumes the old literals, leaving the
precise pass nothing to match.
Verified on the ambiguous case: renaming with a distinct author now puts
the person in Cargo.toml's authors and the org in Plugin::VENDOR, where
the previous implementation put the org in both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WHt4DykxXaQnyaJfyS8KCn
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