[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Migration of block-padding

[Alexander Kjäll]

> The main thing appears to be that someone needs to package the
> core2 crate.

I'm currently working on this, it pulls in a fair bit of new stuff and
some of that needs to be patched in order to get the tests working,
will commit when I have something working.

Den tors 10 aug. 2023 kl 23:42 skrev Peter Green <plugwash at debian.org>:
>
> >
> > It doesn't migrate due to a librust-block-buffer-0.9 depending on the
> > old version.
>
> Indeed, personally I was planning to just wait for auto-removals to
> remove block-buffer-0.9 and it's rdeps from testing at which point
> block-padding should migrate.
>
>
> > cid-npm depends on ipfs-unixfs but that package have never entered
> > testing it seems like: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-cid-npm
>
> Yes it did enter testing and even stable. It was removed from testing
> by auto-removals at the beginning of this month.
>
> It might be nice to investigate if cid-npm can be patched to use the fork
> of unixfs.
>
> >
> > ipfs-unixfs seems to be abandoned but someone have forked it and
> > published new versions under a new name:
>
> I see the fork no longer depends on multihash. So if cid-npm can be
> patched to use unixfs and ipfs-unixfs is removed that gives us a
> way forward.
>
> > I ran './dev/list-rdeps.sh sha3-0.9' that didn't list any rdeps
>
> I have found list-rdeps.sh to be untrustworthy.
>
> Personally I use grep-dctrl on mirror.ftp-master.debian.org, but
> that does sometimes produce false-positives and I don't think
> non-dds can log in there (though you could achive the same by
> downloading the correspoding files from a public mirror).
>
> plugwash at coccia:~$ zcat /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | grep -v Testsuite-Triggers | grep-dctrl rust-sha3-0.9 -spackage
> Package: rust-multihash
> Package: rust-sha3-0.9
> Package: ipfs-cid
> Package: librust-multihash-dev
> Package: librust-sha3-0.9+std-dev
> Package: librust-sha3-0.9-dev
> plugwash at coccia:~$
>
> > 1: I close that delete request
>
> Lets just leave the moreinfo tag on it for now. When the rdeps are dealt with then
> the moreinfo tag can go.
>
>  > and prepare an upload of block-padding-0.2
>
> I'd really rather we did not go further down that road.
>
> There are times when semver-suffix packages are appropriate, for example
> if the number of rdeps is very large, or the changes amount to a major
> re-write/redesign, but they should not be seen as a substitute for making
> a reasonable effort to keep up with new versions of the packages you depend
> on.
>
> > I'm happy to help out if you need any help, but don't know with
> > exactly what if you are also planning to look at it, maybe I can take
> > a stab at upgrading multihash to 0.19 unless someone else is working
> > on that.
>
> The main thing appears to be that someone needs to package the
> core2 crate.
>
>