gleam-lang/gleam

Bad error message when trying to revert an old release

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#5,708 opened on May 13, 2026

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Description

When running gleam hex revert, if the release is too old (and can't be reverted) the error message we get back from Hex shows some raw json object rather than a nice error message:

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Research direction
Locate the `gleam hex revert` command handler in the codebase, find where the Hex API response is parsed, and improve error handling to display a human readable message instead of raw JSON.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
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Bug
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Active
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Clear
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80