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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Matthias Geiger (2024-06-20 18:24:04)
> 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.

Sounds sensible.

Probably good to then note down somewhere, to avoid reintroducing the
package by accident later.  Something like
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/KnownPatches

 - Jonas

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