[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1026635: Bug#1026635: rust-packed-simd: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: /usr/share/cargo/bin/cargo build returned exit code 101

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 21/12/2022 à 05:25, Peter Green a écrit :
>>
>> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
>> on amd64.
>
> I make the following observations about this package.
>
> * It relies on perma-unstable rustc features and this is the third 
> time it
>   has broken in the last two years due to changes in rustc.
> * It has no long-term future, the future of "portable simd" is as a 
> feature
>   in the standard library "std::simd". This is also an unstable 
> feature at
>   present but at least has a path to stabilization.
> * The current development team does not have access to the packed-simd 
> crate
>   on crates.io, so new releases are being released under the alternate 
> crate
>   name "packed-simd2".
> * No applications in Debian currently use it, the only remaining reverse
>   dependencies are optional features in the encoding-rs, grep-searcher 
> and
>   grep crates.
> * The upstream author of those crates said in a recent commit message
>   "I'm *very* close to just removing the 'simd-accel' feature 
> altogether."
>
> Personally I think it's time for this package to go. Unless someone
> expresses an intent to fix this package, I intend to patch the 
> encoding-rs
> grep-searcher and grep crates to remove the "simd-accel" feature allowing
> this package to be autoremoved from testing without taking any 
> applications
> with it.
>
+1

Many thanks for looking into this :)

S