[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#869665: libgit2-dev: please update version in Debian unstable and do a library transition

[Ximin Luo]

Package: libgit2-dev
Version: 0.25.1.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Now that the stretch freeze is over, please could you update libgit to 0.25.1
(or 0.26 even) and do a library transition?

We'd like to update rustc and cargo soon, without the embedded libraries. I
took a brief look at the cargo source code and believe it ought to work with
either 0.25.1 or 0.26, there is one breaking change [1] but cargo does not use
that functionality.

If you want to upload 0.25.1, I'd suggest the version "0.25.1.0" so that it
sorts ahead of the current version "0.25.1+really0.24.6-1".

X

[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.0

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgit2-dev depends on:
ii  libcurl4-gnutls-dev    7.52.1-5
ii  libgit2-25             0.25.1.0-1
ii  libhttp-parser-dev     2.1-2
ii  libssh2-1-dev          1.8.0-1
ii  zlib1g-dev [libz-dev]  1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

libgit2-dev recommends no packages.

libgit2-dev suggests no packages.

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