This resulted in the following error for me:
error[E0464]: multiple candidates for `rlib` dependency `rustc_literal_escaper` found
--> clippy_dev/src/lib.rs:25:1
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25 | extern crate rustc_literal_escaper;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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= note: candidate #1: /home/pkrones/.rustup/toolchains/nightly-2025-12-25-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_literal_escaper-4f30574e01c3dad1.rlib
= note: candidate #2: /home/pkrones/.rustup/toolchains/nightly-2025-12-25-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_literal_escaper-c8a0e29ad1040cee.rmeta
Other tools in the Rust repo also take that as an explicit dependency, like rust-analyzer or lint-docs.