[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1120671: Bug#1120671: rust-swc-core: FTBFS with serde >= 1.0.220

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, at 6:54 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Fabian Grünbichler (2025-11-27 18:15:49)
>> Control: block 1111762 by -1
>> 
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:10:56 -0500 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Source: rust-swc-core
>> > Version: 35.0.0~ds-5
>> > Severity: important
>> > Tags: upstream
>> > 
>> > In 1.0.220, serde removed a __private module, which swc-core was using,
>> > so swc-core FTBFS.
>> > 
>> > It looks like upstream fixed this in 42.0.1. The individual PR for the
>> > fix was <https://github.com/swc-project/swc/pull/11094>.
>> > 
>> > I've just uploaded serde, serde-core, and serde-derive 1.0.228 to
>> > experimental.
>> 
>> This will soon start blocking the toml 0.9 upgrade and thus also 
>> rust-cargo 0.91 and rust-gix 0.73.
>
> Please go ahead and upload to unstable, not waiting for rust-swc-core.
>
> Sorry, I thought I had posted this already some time ago, but evidently
> not. I failed to renew my OpenPGP key in time, and am now cannot upload
> packages until after next update of the debian-keyring package (which
> is typically done at the end of each month, so should be any day now).
> I have the patched rust-swc-core package ready - thanks to your
> research locating the upstream fix - and will release that as soon as I
> get back my upload right.

thanks for the quick reply! would bumping this to RC be okay for you,
so that if it doesn't get sorted out in time we can get serde (and then
toml, which has one dep still in NEW ;)) migrated by dropping rust-swc-core
from testing temporarily?