On Feb 23, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:Redistributors may *ask* a publisher to reclassify their project as a library or a devtool (and hence also avoid pinning their dependencies in order to make integration easier), but publishers will always have the option of saying "No, we want to you to treat it as an application, and we won't help your end users if we know you're overriding our pinned dependencies and the issue can't be reproduced outside your custom configuration".