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Improve error message for a file being too large when publishing to Hex

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#5,744 opened on May 23, 2026

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Description

Similar to https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/5708 which is for making api_revert_package_response error msg nicer

api_publish_package_response currently dumps the raw json eg

hexpm1

assuming https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/5708 gets https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/pull/5728 and adds hexpm::ApiError::ValidationError that same type could be used for the api_publish_package_response case StatusCode::UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/d09b84d289458b39caa304496a02e7412643bcf0/hexpm/src/lib.rs#L542

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Inspect the api publish package response handler in hexpm/src/lib.rs and handle StatusCode::UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY by converting to a ValidationError similar to the revert case in PR #5728.
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