On 2024-01-24 13:26:49 +0100 (+0100), Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: [...] > how does that work for those applications that require rust, go > and friends? Are you proposing that everything that needs them > should be be distributed by a flatpak or similar mechanism > instead? > > Just a few days ago I tried building mesa from experimental > (otherwise there are severe graphics glitches on my platform) on > bookworm and everything worked except its rust build dependencies. > I had no luck trying to backport those parts of rust that I needed > and even if it had worked, it would've meant backporting dozens of > rust packages just to have a backport of mesa. [...]
Another practical example is Python applications/libs increasingly integrating performance or security critical routines (re)written in Rust. The python-cryptography source package in sid build-depends on cargo and a dozen Rust libs. I didn't bother to pull a rdeps list for it, but can guarantee a vast swath of the python3-* packages in Debian depend on python3-cryptography, and this particular problem will only get worse as the CPython core devs see the rising popularity of the externally-developed cryptography library as a good reason to strip any remnants of cryptographic modules and bindings from the stdlib. -- Jeremy Stanley
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