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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Fabian Grünbichler (2026-02-01 12:08:15)
> 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..

Regarding the rust-wasmtime dependency, please simply go ahead with the
upgrade - i.e. no need to warn ahead and no need to prepare a proposed
patch, just do it and I'll catch up.

Thanks,

 - Jonas

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