[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1116060: please upgrade crate imara-diff to v0.2

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Antonin Delpeuch (lists) (2025-09-30 05:23:44)
> I've had a close look at this and unfortunately it looks complicated. 
> The version 0.2 of this crate has been published in a rather unexpected 
> way, without any git tag, changelog or migration guide, despite it 
> containing a significant range of breaking changes [1]. This seems to 
> have reduced the appetite of downstream users to migrate.
> 
> The crates that depend on imara-diff and that are currently in sid are 
> diffy-imara and gitoxide (gix-diff and gix-merge). None of those 
> upstream crates have migrated to imara-diff 0.2 yet; in fact Gitoxide 
> has made a deliberate decision not to migrate given the issues above. [2]
> 
> Looking at the dependents of this crate on crates.io [3], it seems that 
> the vast majority of them is sticking to v0.1 so far.
> 
> May I ask which downstream use of this crate is prompting you to request 
> this version update? Are you perhaps packaging helix perhaps?

Yes, the crate affected in helix, and yes, I am maintaining Helix.
I had already indicated that by tagging this bugreport as affecting the
package src:hx.

When not all of upstream reverse dependencies have moved to the newer
upstream version, then please provide it as a separate package.

 - Jonas

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