[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017084: rust-chrono: please update to v0.4.21

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Peter Green (2022-08-13 17:10:15)
> On 13/08/2022 14:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Peter Green (2022-08-13 15:33:21)
> >> The new upstream version depends on the iana-time-zone crate, if/when
> >> someone packages that crate and it passes trough NEW, I am happy to
> >> update chrono. 
> > Thanks for your input, Peter.
> >
> > I don't really understand your last comment, however: I would expect
> > that the maintainer of a package considers packaging dependencies as
> > needed for maintaining the package - not just waiting idly for other to
> > do so.
> 
> Sadly there are a lot of under-maintained rust packages in Debian.
> I got involved with the rust team, because the situation had
> degraded to the point it was causing issues for my downstream
> distribution. I fixed (and continue to fix) many issues that were
> blocking up testing migration, and recently I have also been
> looking at any bug reports that come in requesting new versions
> of packages, or requesting that broken packages be fixed. If
> said bug reports can be fixed easily I fix them, otherwise
> I document what the blockers are.
> 
> I'm reluctant to introduce new packages, because I see that
> as taking long-term responsibility which I would rather
> not take unless the package in question is meaningful to
> me personally.

Makes good sense.  Thanks for your work!


 - Jonas

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