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

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Paul,

thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[...]
>> 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 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).

Okay, got it. Then please consider this request only as testing the
waters for a potential backport at a later time. Suricata 6 is not going
to be released for a while and if there is no chance of a backport, than
that's how it's going to be.

Cheers
Sascha

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