[pkg-go] Bug#1116503: debos: evaluate passt as alternative to libslirp-helper

[Christopher Obbard]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:27:10 -0400 =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?=
<jbicha at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: debos
> Version: 1.1.5-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: forky sid
> Control: block 1053631 by -1
> 
> rust-libslirp depends on several unmaintained Rust crates. When a
> Fedora packager complained about this in
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp-rs/-/issues/5 , it was
> suggested that passt is a maintained alternative to libslirp-helper.
> Please evaluate whether debos can switch since debos is the only
> reason rust-libslip is still in Debian.
> 
> rust-passt is not yet packaged in Debian. Please let the Debian Rust
> team know if you need it to be packaged.
> 
> https://github.com/kevingimbel/passt

We no longer use rust-libslirp in debos/fakemachine.

I've uploaded fakemachine 0.0.13 which removes it from the deps; we are
preparing a new upstream release of debos shortly which means we will be
able to get rid of rust-libslirp soon :-).

If that's any longer than a few weeks, I'll prepare an intermediate
upload of debos removing libslirp from the deps.


Cheers!

Chris