[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1136902: rust-html2text: Please update to 0.16

[Peter Green]

On 17/05/2026 18:28, Peter Michael Green wrote:
>> the package akonadi-search uses rust-html2text for parsing html.
>> Upstream upgraded its requirements to 0.16, but Debian only has 0.12.
>> Sadly, it seems that 0.12 crashes a lot [1].
> hmm? I don't see such a dependency.
>>
>> plugwash at coccia:~$ zcat /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -e rust-html2text -spackage
>> Package: gnome-podcasts
>> Package: rust-html2text
>> Package: librust-html2text-dev
>> plugwash at coccia:~$
> I also notice that gnome-podcasts still seems to be on 0.12 upstream.
> 
After further consideration, I've decided to update html2text to 0.16.2,
this was the last version to use html5ever 0.35, which was recently
uploaded to Debian.

I could potentially update it further, but that would require either
downpatching the dependency or updating html5ever further.