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Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#6694: units: Flatten Error Constructors

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Authored by Andrew Poelstra

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Merge rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin#6694: units: Flatten Error Constructors

9c43790cc9628606c25eb6cc4bce1b587b699512 units: Flatten nested error constructors (Abeeujah)
51ced9efd4ea23d265d2141565db1cc406dfc180 Allow unnecessary_map_on_constructor lint rule (Abeeujah)

Pull request description:

Refactor nested error constructors with chained `map_err` transformation,
This improves readability by making each error conversion step explicit
and easy to reason about.
- Patch 1: Allows the `unnecessary_map_on_constructor` lint rule.
- Patch 2: Flattens double nested `Err` constructors.


ACKs for top commit:
apoelstra:
ACK 9c43790cc9628606c25eb6cc4bce1b587b699512; successfully ran local tests; kinda code-churny but definitely an improvement


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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup that rewrites how error values are constructed in the Rust Bitcoin library. It changes nested constructor calls like Err(OuterError(InnerError { ... })) into a flatter style using map_err. There is no functional change to how amounts, locktimes, or hex parsing behave, and no security bug is introduced or fixed.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal refactoring review; verify CI passes and behavior is unchanged.

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