[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1117196: rust-malachite-base: remove?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Jeremy,

On Sat, Oct 04, 2025 at 11:55:08AM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>While looking at the packages in Debian that still use the deprecated
>rust-clap-2, I noticed rust-malachite-base which has no reverse
>dependencies. Do you still need rust-malachite or can we remove
>rust-malachite-base instead?

I think we can remove it; it was originally part of my effort to
package rustpython, which was once a dependency of ruff
(before they switched to their own bundled fork).

Somebody can always repackage it later if needed; I don't think it's
worth the trouble keeping it around for now.

Thanks!

jelmer