Bug#1062016: Consider providing separate librsvg2 package

[Matthias Geiger]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:11:57 +0100 Matthias Geiger 
<werdahias at riseup.net> wrote:
 > On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 20:19:18 +0100 Fabian =?utf-8?Q?Gr=C3=BCnbichler?=
 > <debian at fabian.gruenbichler.email> wrote:
 > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:14:50 +0100 Matthias Geiger
 > <werdahias at riseup.net> wrote:
 > > > please consider providing a librust-librsvg2-dev package. This 
should
 > > > just install the rust source files under
 > > > /usr/share/cargo/registry/librsvg2-VERSION. This will be needed by
 > > > loupe/glycin to load svgs (other crates also started depend on
 > > > librsvg2).
 > > >
 > > > f_g: Is an install of those files compatible with our setup even if
 > some
 > > > deps of librsvg2 are not in debian yet (it's built vendored) ?
 > >
 > > Hi (f_g here ;)),
 > >
 > > For librsvg to be usable as a Rust dependency in Debian, all its
 > > dependencies (which are currently vendored) also need to be 
packaged as
 > > Rust source code in a way that allows rdeps of librust-librsvg-dev to
 > > find them.
 >
 >
 > Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have packaged almost all missing
 > deps for librsvg so the source could be devendored (if desired).
 > Regardless, this should allow shipping the librust- binary package I
 > need. I lean towards devendoring librsvg; but this is up to the
 > maintainers to decide.
 >
 > best,

 >

Draft MR 
here: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/librsvg/-/merge_requests/25

f_g: Does this seem correct once all dependencies are in debian ?

This will need to wait until after the gtk-rs transition anyway, so no 
pressure at all.

best,

-- 
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer

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