[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1013869: rust-reqwest: feature rustls-tls has disappeared

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On 27/06/2022 01:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying.
>
> I consider it a *horrific* bug that an interface is explicitly
> advertised as available, linking against it succeeds, yet it is
> non-functional.
>
> In my opinion this renders the whole package unsuitable for release, and
> I hereby flag this bugreport as such.
>
> Please as a minimum ensure that broken or missing features are *not*
> advertised by the package.

I'll remove the rustls support completely until/unless it can be 
re-enabled in a sane form.

but lets be clear not every "feature" that exists in a rust crate 
actually provides useful functionality. The "feature" 
"rustls-native-certs" was never advertised as providing any particular 
functionality. At this point I have only removed features, I have not 
changed the functionality of any existing features. Depending on the 
"feature" "rustls-native-certs" would be just as useless with the 
unmodified upstream source as it would be with my patched version.

Assuming tokio-rustls and hyper-rustls are packaged, I do intend to 
switch the "rustls-tls" feature from being an alias for 
"rustls-tls-webpki-roots" to being an alias for 
"rustls-tls-native-roots" in line with what I believe is appropriate for 
Debian. Indeed I already have a patch in the package doing that, but the 
feature is currently removed completely by a patch later in the series.