[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Requesting backport of cbindgen > 0.10.0 to buster

Paul Gevers elbrus at debian.org
Thu Apr 9 12:31:29 BST 2020


Hi,

Release-team member hat on.

On 09-04-2020 13:01, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> for a future update of Suricata [1] to version 6.0 I would like to
> request a buster backport of cbindgen [2] to at least version 0.10.0
> since that is now a dependency for a possible buster backport of Suricata 6.
> 
> It seems pretty straightforward to do: all missing dependencies of
> cbindgen are easily backported with no changes with the exception of
> dh-cargo, which requires a new version of cargo (0.40) due to a recent
> change (in dh-cargo 22). I hit the boundaries of my Rust skills at
> backporting cargo 0.40, since that seems to be connected to the Rust
> version as well, and I am not sure I feel comfortable touching rustc and
> friends for a backport.
> 
> It would be nice if someone could take a look -- thanks in advance!

I highly recommend against backporting anything from the rust ecosystem
to debian-backports at this moment in time. The rust ecosystem in Debian
recently had (and I expect still has) trouble to properly migrate to
testing and is missing a *demonstrated* sane dependency and versioning
scheme (in the context of how Debian is working *at this moment* in time).

Paul

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