[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1111447: Bug#1111447: please upgrade crate petgraph to v0.8

[Jeremy Bícha]

Jonas,

Could you be more patient? The Debian Rust team has been extremely
busy since Debian 13 was released. A quick search of
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/ for
"accepted" in August and September shows approximately 1000 uploads,
which I think is impressive throughput. But with over 3000 Rust
packages in Debian, it's going to take time to catch up after the
Debian archive was frozen for most of the year.

Because of how versioning [1] works in Rust, an update of
rust-petgraph from 0.6.4-1 to 0.8 is basically a transition and
requires careful work to ensure that all reverse dependencies are
still buildable. This takes careful work and it takes time.

You are welcome to contribute packaging directly if you want to see
various Rust packages updated sooner. That of course requires
contributing using the established workflow for those packages.

By the way, larger Rust transitions have been scheduled at
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/issues/130

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#default-requirements

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha