[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017072: Bug#1017072: Bug#1017072: rust-grcov: Please update package to 0.8.x

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Thanks Peter for all your great work!

Le 13/08/2022 à 03:43, Peter Green a écrit :
> Severity 1017072 serious
> Thanks
>
> I'm bumping this up to serious, because the version of rust-grcov 
> currently in Debian
> has many broken build-dependencies, I could open a seperate bug for 
> that but I
> don't think it's worthwhile.
>
> There is work in progress packaging for an update of rust-grcov in the 
> debcargo-conf
> repository, unfortunately the latest upstream version has a 
> dependencies on a few
> crates that are not in debian. Specifically symbolic-common, 
> symbolic-demangle and
> tera.
>
> Sylvestre prepared a patch that removed the dependencies on 
> symbolic-common and
> symbolic-demangle, but the patch broke the build so I removed it from the
> patch series for now. Looking at the upstream git history it looks to me
> like eliminating those dependencies would be non-trivial.
>
I started with tera. I will have a look to the others asap (before the 
freeze)

Cheers

Sylvestre