[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1072807: rust-instant: crate is abandoned - recommended replacement is web_time

[Matthias Geiger]

On 20.06.24 17:29, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Matthias Geiger (2024-06-20 17:14:08)
>> On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:12:48 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> Source: rust-instant  > Version: 0.1.12-3 > Severity: serious > Tags: upstream >
>>> The crate is buggy and unmaintained, according to this:
>>> https://github.com/sebcrozet/instant/issues/52
>>>
>>> The recommended (seemingly drop-in) replacement is web_time.
>>>
>>> Raising severity as this crate seems unsuitable for long-term stable
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> - Jonas
>>>
>> Tracking at https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/issues/66
> Debian uses debbugs as bugtracker, so I expect that anything at that
> local-to-Rust-team tracker relevant to Debian will be echoed here.

We opted to patch out instant / replace it with std::time::Instant 
rather than packaging web-time since instant is a wasm crate anyway.

All affected crates (indicatif, backoff, rhai) have working / tested 
patches and are awaiting upload. Then I will file a RM request for instant.

best,

werdahias