[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1089894: rust-ognibuild: stuck in Unstable due to broken dependencies

[NoisyCoil]

Source: rust-ognibuild
Followup-For: Bug #1089894
X-Debbugs-Cc: noisycoil at tutanota.com, dr at jones.dk, jelmer at debian.org

Hi Martin-Éric,


TL;DR: one issue is fixed in VCS and waiting for upload, I plan to work on
another issue if lazy-regex's maintainer doesn't beat me on timing, a third
issue is best dealt with by ognibuild's maintainer, who is its upstream too.


I can only speak for the dependencies, but please note that, currently,
ognibuild is failing autopkgtests for unrelated reasons [1], so fixing the deps
will likely not be sufficient to unblock migration. I'll leave it to its
maintainer, Jelmer Vernooij (in cc), to dig into this, since he's upstream too
and knows the codebase better than me.


ognibuild is part of the lazy-regex transition, on which I worked on behalf of
the Rust Team. There are two issues with regards to lazy-regex. The first one
is that, due to Bug#1085942, ognibuild does not correctly pick up the
dependency on lazy-regex despite declaring its compatibility with v3, which
already is in unstable. I've already fixed this issue in VCS [2], where it's
waiting for upload. Judging from VCS's d/changelog, Jelmer intends to upload a 
new upstream version soon, so I asked my sponsor to refrain from doing so himself.

The second issue is rust-lazy-regex currently fails autopkgtests due to changes
introduced by the latest upstream release, thus blocking migration of ognibuild
even if the two issues above were fixed. I was planning to look into these
failures to help Jonas -- the maintainer of lazy-regex, in cc -- unblock the
transition, unless he beats me on timing.


Cheers!


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/rust-ognibuild/testing/amd64/
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/commit/62b6dd241f77ecc666a8d411a160dce1d206ef88