On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > Paul Gevers: > > Hi all, > > > > On 05-01-2020 14:39, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> Paul Gevers: > >>> [..] > >>> > >>> [1] Now thunderbird is blocked by rust-cbindgen (last version migrated > >>> in September with uploads since October), which is blocked by rust-syn > >>> (last version migrated in July, with new uploads since August). Involved > >>> is rust-proc-macro2 (last version migrated in July, with new uploads > >>> since August (and currently triggers an autopkgtest regression)), > >>> rust-unicode-xid (which has been trying to migrate to testing since > >>> August), rust-quote (trying to migrate since August). And I may be > >>> missing others. rustc was involved at some moment, cargo was involved > >>> (and FTBFS for some time) etc... > > > > And today another firefox-esr, with CVE fixes, appeared, which is also > > blocked by this. > > > > I just had a look, and both firefox-esr and thunderbird still are vendoring > their own rust source code in third_part/rust/* and make no attempt to > integrate with dh-cargo or our cargo-debian-wrapper in d/rules in the way > that I prescribe here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907629#30 > > So their current build-dependencies on any librust-* packages are bogus, and > can simply be dropped to progress with migration. > > Likewise, rustc and cargo are purposefully designed to vendor their own > crates, and *not* depend on any librust-* packages, and so they shouldn't > affect migration either. > firefox-esr doesn't build-depend on any librust-* package. It build-depends on rustc, cargo, and cbindgen. But cbindgen is not in testing, and *it* build-depends on a bunch of librust-*-dev packages, which block its migration to testing.
Cheers, Julien
