[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1064375: Raising severity of rust-gtk bugs

[Matthias Geiger]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 10:01:21 -0500 =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?= 
<jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
 > Control: severity -1 serious
 >
 > at-spi2-core is part of the 64-bit time_t transition. The new version
 > of at-spi2-core is causing rust-atk-sys' autopkgtest to fail.
 > rust-atk-sys and the rest of the Rust GTK3 stack is no longer
 > maintained upstream. One way to handle this is to ignore failures of
 > the overly sensitive autopkgtest. But it also makes the GNOME 46 Rust
 > transition easier if we don't need to tweak or fix all the Rust GTK3
 > stuff ourselves.
 >
 > Therefore, I am raising the severity of this bug and we will probably
 > ask the Debian Release Team to remove these packages from Testing even
 > faster than the automatic removal process.
 >
 > Thank you,
 > Jeremy Bícha
 >

 >

It is now EOL/deprecated officialy upstream: 
https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs.

I managed to vendor in the crates for squeekboard but I couldn't get it 
to build, will look into it more but would appreciate a second opinion. 
For gtklayershell / swayosd we can do the same; building

a mix of vendored and packaged crates works.

best,

-- 
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer

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