[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#970427: buster-pu: package rust-cbindgen/0.14.4-1~deb10u1

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Wed Sep 16 10:24:25 BST 2020


Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: buster
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

Hi,

This updates rust-cbindgen to 0.14. In order to do that we have to embed the
build-deps, like we did for 0.8.7 in stretch.

I have disabled the -dev packages. buster only has librust-cbindgen-dev, which
has no (build-)rdeps, so we could decruft the old version with this update.
The alternative would be to keep building it, but I'm not sure how that would
work given the deps are not available in buster. We'd probably need to ship
the vendored deps in the -dev, possibly causing upgrade issues due to file
overwrites when installing the standalone packages from bullseye, so I didn't
bother investigating that route. pkg-rust-maintainers@ in Cc in case they have
any comments.

Debdiff from 0.14 in [1] due to the size. I haven't uploaded it yet, please
let me know if the plan to not build and decruft librust-cbindgen-dev is good
and I'll proceed with the upload.

Cheers,
Emilio

[1] https://people.debian.org/~pochu/rust-cbindgen.debdiff.xz



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