Tracking Issue for future-incompatibility lint `ambiguous_derive_helpers`

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This is the tracking issue for the ambiguous_derive_helpers future-compatibility warning and other related errors. The goal of this page is to describe why this change was made and how you can fix code that is affected by it. It also provides a place to ask questions or register a complaint if you feel the change should not be made. For more information on the policy around future-compatibility warnings, see our breaking change policy guidelines.

What is the warning for?

A derive macro's helper attribute has the same name as that of a built-in attribute

Why was this change made?

This attribute cannot be used, even though it is allowed to be specified inside of attributes(..). If you attempt to use it, you will get an error:

error[E0659]: `ignore` is ambiguous
 --> src/lib.rs:5:7
  |
5 |     #[ignore]
  |       ^^^^^^ ambiguous name
  |
  = note: ambiguous because of a name conflict with a builtin attribute
  = note: `ignore` could refer to a built-in attribute
note: `ignore` could also refer to the derive helper attribute defined here
 --> src/lib.rs:3:10
  |
3 | #[derive(Trait)]
  |          ^^^^^

Example

#[proc_macro_derive(Trait, attributes(ignore))]
pub fn example(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
    TokenStream::new()
}

Recommendations

Remove the helper attribute from attributes(..), or pick another name

When will this warning become a hard error?

Unknown

Steps

• Implement the lint
• Raise lint level to deny
• Change the lint to report in dependencies
• Switch to a hard error

Implementation history

• Add FCW for derive helper attributes that will conflict with built-in attributes #151152