[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017084: rust-chrono: please update to v0.4.21

[Peter Green]

On 13/08/2022 14:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Peter Green (2022-08-13 15:33:21)
>> The new upstream version depends on the iana-time-zone crate, if/when
>> someone packages that crate and it passes trough NEW, I am happy to
>> update chrono. 
> Thanks for your input, Peter.
>
> I don't really understand your last comment, however: I would expect
> that the maintainer of a package considers packaging dependencies as
> needed for maintaining the package - not just waiting idly for other to
> do so.

Sadly there are a lot of under-maintained rust packages in Debian.
I got involved with the rust team, because the situation had
degraded to the point it was causing issues for my downstream
distribution. I fixed (and continue to fix) many issues that were
blocking up testing migration, and recently I have also been
looking at any bug reports that come in requesting new versions
of packages, or requesting that broken packages be fixed. If
said bug reports can be fixed easily I fix them, otherwise
I document what the blockers are.

I'm reluctant to introduce new packages, because I see that
as taking long-term responsibility which I would rather
not take unless the package in question is meaningful to
me personally.