On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 03:55:07PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi Rust & Python teams, > > I would like to package: > > https://github.com/trailofbits/rfc3161-client > > It is a Python library that ships with and needs a Rust crate to work, > the separation is best explained by upstream: > > It is composed of three subprojects: > > 🦀 tsp-asn1: A Rust crate using rust-asn1 to create the types used by > the Time-Stamp protocol. This crate depends on rust-asn1 and > cryptography to minimize the amount of duplicated code. While it is > usable as a standalone crate, this is not officially supported. Drop > us a message if you are interested in using it. > > 🦀 rfc3161-client: Another Rust crate that provides Python bindings > to the tsp-asn1 crate using PyO3. > > 🐍 rfc3161-client A Python library using the crate above to provide a > usable API to create Timestamp Request and read Timestamp Response. > > Are there similar projects that are packaged in Debian that I look at > for inspiration? > > Any thoughts on if this be split up into two separate Debian source > packages, one maintained by the rust team following their policies and > ship the crates - and one source package maintained by the python team > following their policies that ship the library and depend on the rust > packages -- or just one source package with a more complicated > maintainership and build process? > > I have started python-like packaging here: > > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rfc3161-client/ > > However it lacks the Rust part. Would someone who knows Rust want to > join me working on this package? I'm still learning Python packaging so > I hope to help on that, but I haven't done any Rust packaging at all... > forks, merge requests, commits etc appreciated.
I've packaged a few Python packages that are fully or partially built in rust. The simplest examples are probably: * dulwich * python-upstream-ontologist More advanced are e.g.: * ruff If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Cheers, Jelmer
