[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1079152: rust-criterion: Bootstraping rust-spin/criterion

[Peter Green]

> Samuel Thibault, le mar. 20 août 2024 16:15:30 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Currently:
>> 
>> - rust-spin build-depends on librust-criterion-0.5+default-dev
>> - librust-criterion-dev depends on librust-plotters-0.3+{area,line,svg}-series-dev
>> - librust-plotters-dev depends on librust-lazy-static-1+default-dev
>> - librust-lazy-static-dev depends on librust-spin-0.9+default-dev
>> 
>> So we have a bootstrapping loop.
>> 
>> Could rust-criterion perhaps provide a build profile that avoids the
>> plotters dependency? (I guess that just disables some output features)
> 
> Ah, no, it's an arch:all package, so that won't really fly.
> 
> Not sure how to best handle this. Perhaps the optionality of the
> plotters feature can be expressed for rust-spin to be able to disable
> it?

I've added a <!nocheck> annotation to the build-dependency in rust-spin,
does that solve your problem?