[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1111400: Bug#1111400: please upgrade crate bytesize to v2

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2026, at 1:32 AM, Peter Michael Green wrote:
>>  Please upgrade crate bytesize to v2. On the one hand, it looks like there were some fairly significant changes.
>
>>  • Add support for `no_std` targets.
>>  • Use IEC (binary) format by default with `Display`.
>>  • Use "kB" for SI unit.
>>  • Add `Display` type for customizing printed format.
>>  • Add `ByteSize::display()` method.
>>  • Implement `Sub<ByteSize>` for `ByteSize`.
>>  • Implement `Sub<impl Into<u64>>` for `ByteSize`.
>>  • Implement `SubAssign<ByteSize>` for `ByteSize`.
>>  • Implement `SubAssign<impl Into<u64>>` for `ByteSize`.
>>  • Reject parsing non-unit characters after whitespace.
>>  • Remove `ByteSize::to_string_as()` method.
>>  • Remove top-level `to_string()` method.
>>  • Remove top-level `B` constant.
> On the other hand, I think this is mostly intended for UI
> stuff where precise behaviour is not so critical.
>
> Preliminary analysis of rdeps
>
> prs - upstream moved to v2 with no significant code changes
> python-cramjam - rc buggy and not in testing
> rust-bat - use of bytesize seems quite minimal and tests pass with the 
> new version.
> rust-cargo - upstream has moved away from bytesize, there is an issue 
> filed on salsa about updating cargo.
> rust-gix-features - upstream bumped dependency in version 0.42 without 
> making any code changes.
> rust-kmon - upstream has updated, but hasn't made a release yet.
> rust-prodash - upstream updated with minimal code changes.
> rust-systemstat - use of bytesize seems fairly intensive, still on 1.x 
> upstream
> rust-wasmtime - still on 1.x upstream, currently build-dependency only.
>
> My gut feeling is we should probably do this after the gix/cargo update.

I hope to rebased and finally pull the trigger on that this week after
FOSDEM..