[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1080480: rust-merge: most autopkgtests fail

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:21:30PM +0200, Arnaud Ferraris wrote:
> Le 04/09/2024 à 21:36, Colin Watson a écrit :
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/rust-merge/testing/amd64/ appears to
> > > have always failed; it looks as though rust-merge:@ and
> > > librust-merge-dev:default succeed but everything else fails.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > There've been no upstream commits since 2020-09-21, only one upstream
> > > release ever which was on 2020-09-01, and there are no
> > > reverse-dependencies.  Should we just remove it?
> 
> Thanks for the notice, I'll have a look ASAP.
> 
> FWIW I intend to package a software depending on this crate, but I'll check
> for alternatives and file an RM bug if it can be replaced with something
> more actively maintained.

Peter fixed it in
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1562797/accepted-rust-merge-010-2-source-into-unstable/
(thanks!), so the situation is definitely less bad than it was for
Debian; though the apparent lack of upstream maintenance might still be
a problem at some point.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]