[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1110778: rust-async-tls: please drop

[Peter Green]

Severity 1110778 important
Thanks

On 12/08/2025 18:58, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:12:27 +0100 Peter Michael Green <plugwash at debian.org> wrote:
>> severity 1110778 serious
>> thanks
>>
>> I've fixed this package up so it doesn't block the rustls-webpki update
>> but I agree it should probably not be in forky, so I am bumping this
>> up to serious.
>>
>> If someone wants to keep this package please speak up now.
>>
> unless I missed something, librust-async-tungstenite still Depends: on it ?
> https://sources.debian.org/src/rust-async-tungstenite/0.28.2-1/Cargo.toml#L128
>
> I packaged it as dependency for async-tungestenite; no objections for a removal otherwise.
Thanks for spotting what Jonas and I missed.

The dependency is optional, but said optional dependency *is* used
by rust-magic-wormhole.

I was about to file a bug about this upstream, but I hesistated because
frankly futures-rustls doesn't look much better maintained than
async-tls. Yes, right now it uses current rustls upstream (whereas
async-tls is patched in Debian to use current rustls) but it's
last release was still a year ago.

Further looking at the git history it looks like about a month after
the last release the author tried to make another one but
did not go through with it for unknown reasons and there has
been little activity since.