[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017964: Bug#1017964: rust-pleaser FTBFS/autopkgtest failure with nix 0.25

[submit at bugs.debian.org]

On 2022-08-23 02:12+0100, Peter Green wrote:
> The API of gethostname has changed. Now instead of taking a buffer 
> from the caller it retuns a Result<OsString>
> 
> Adjusting the code was easy enough, but I notice that the buffer size 
> used by the new version of gethostname is about 4 times larger than 
> the one used previously in pleaser. I have not investigated whether 
> this increase in potential string length has any security implications 
> for pleaser.
> 
> Patch at
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/blob/master/src/pleaser/debian/patches/nix-0.25.patch

I don't see any issues from it, and thanks for keeping me in the loop.

The patch looks good, thanks again and I'll merge it before the next 
upstream bump.

Ed