[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1082053: Bug#1082053: RUSTSEC-2023-0086

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Peter,

On 2025-06-06 10:46, Peter Green wrote:
>> Backporting upstream PRs #103, #115, #117 and #127 should fix these 
>> issues.
> 
> The named maintainer of this package hasn't touched it since 2019, since 
> then
> it's been kept alive by team uploads, mostly by me, but there has been an
> upstream a package split, and at least I'm personally very reluctant to 
> introduce
> new packages unless it's a package I personally care about. Backporting 
> this
> stack of fixes also seems like more than I'm willing to get myself into.

Thanks for providing more context. I am interested in this package just 
as a dependency of tahoe-lafs.

> You already seem to be a member of the rust team, so feel free to backport
> the patches and make a team upload. Otherwise I think this is going to
> get autoremoved.
Yes, I am a member of Rust team. I do not do much Rust packaging, but I 
will try to fix rust-lexical-core.

Best,
Andrius