[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#955638: Bug#955638: Bug#955638: cargo: please package recent version

[Ximin Luo]

Sorry, I had a brain-fart here.

We have 2 cargo packages, 1 (rust-cargo) that is part of our rust crate packaging ecosystem with its web of dependencies, and 1 (cargo) that explicitly embeds its dependencies to avoid this type of issue.

The latter is what you want, and I've just uploaded it too, so there should be no need to wait for the below packages. I got confused earlier because we use rust-cargo to update cargo, and I temporarily forgot my own instructions on updating the packaging.

So Thunderbird should now be unblocked on this front.

Best,
Ximin

Ximin Luo:
> Hi Carsten, cargo 0.43.1 has been packaged and source-only uploaded, however for it to be built, it will have to wait for the following packages to clear NEW:
> 
> rust-bitmaps_2.1.0-1_amd64.ftp-master.upload
> rust-im-rc_14.3.0-1_amd64.ftp-master.upload
> rust-sized-chunks_0.6.1-1_amd64.ftp-master.upload
> 
> I will ping them to hopefully get a bit more priority.
> 
> Best,
> Ximin
> 
> Carsten Schoenert:
>> Hello Ximin,
>>
>> Am 04.04.20 um 02:17 schrieb Ximin Luo:
>>> Hi Carsten, it might be a couple of weeks until we get this done.
>>> Have you tried just deleting the version constraint and using the
>>> existing version in Debian sid?
>> I've tried to figure out the right place there this version check is
>> happen. In most cases this is file ./old-configure.in within the
>> Thunderbird sources. But I did have no luck on this until now. I will
>> look further into this part this weekend I guess, mostly the version
>> checks from the Firefox environment are to strict for Thunderbird, yes.
>> Most of the parts from the Firefox source are not built for Thunderbird
>> but the configure script is checking this.
>>
>> In the long term this is always just a workaround which, if I do this, I
>> need to proof deeply before uploading new packages even to experimental.
>> So if you ever find time to have a look into newer cargo versions please
>> keep an eye on this.
>>
>> It's currently really frustrating that I'm unable to build a recent
>> Thunderbird Beta version due every time new version dependencies around
>> Rust are popping up. This is not your fault, but shows me how complex
>> and fragile the Rust ecosystem currently is.
>>
>> The built is just the first problem I need to solve, Mozilla has again
>> changed some previously internally parts in Thunderbird and I need to
>> adopt the Debian built to this again.
>>
> 
> 


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