[Pkg-rust-maintainers] state of the rust ecosystem (and particularly rust-cbindgen) in Debian (was: Requesting backport of cbindgen > 0.10.0 to buster)

[peter green]

On 10/04/2020 17:47, peter green wrote:
>
> (note: these are my observations as a maintainer of a derivative)
>
>> The rust ecosystem in Debian
>> recently had (and I expect still has) trouble to properly migrate to
>> testing
> Indeed there are still issues, most notablly IMO that firefox-esr's build-dependencies have been unsatisfiable in testing for over 7 months because rust-cbindgen has not been able to migrate to testing.

Update:

Sylvestre invited me into the rust team and him and I have been plugging away at this. The issues mentioned in my original mail have been dealt with.

Unfortunately new issues do seem to pop up, for example sometimes tests that were being skipped because of dependency issues before start to run. Also some packages were uploaded (crossbeam-util and goblin) that broke revese-dependencies. I have been dealing with these as I spot them.

Can I ask that until we get this lot migrated to testing that people are careful about uploading packages that involve a semver break.

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