Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm
James McCoy and I have been working on updating the rust-nom package from version 5 to version 7, this is needed to enable ICMP support in sniffglue and I belive it is also needed to facilitate packaging of alacritty. In addition to the rust-nom package (which is currently version 5.x in testing and version 7.x in unstable) there is a rust-nom-4 package providing version 4.x and a rust-nom-3 package providing version 3.x. It would be possible to introduce a rust-nom-5 package as well but I don't think it's justifiable to introduce yet another version at this time. All but one of the reverse (build-)dependencies of nom 5.x have been ported to nom 7.x, either by new upstream versions or by patching. That leaves rust-weedle. rust-weedle has a single reverse (build-)dependency rust-wasm-bindgen-webidl, neither of them are currently used by any applications in Debian. The version of rust-weedle currently in testing is the latest upstream version and depends on nom 5.x. I tried patching it to use nom 7.x but failed to do so, I also filed a bug report upstream but got no response. I then decided to try patching rust-weedle to use nom 4.x since that would at least avoid introducing yet another version of nom to the archive. I did so by reverting the upstream commit porting it from 4.x to 5.x. The tests passed and I uploaded it as rust-weedle 0.12.0-2. Unfortunately after uploading it I discovered that the autopkgtest for rust-wasm-bindgen-webidl failed and it became clear that my upload of rust-weedle had caused an API break. I attempted to try and adjust the patch to avoid the API break but was not successful, I don't think the version with the API break can be considered fit for release. At that point I filed bug 1007026 to give the rest of the rust team a chance to comment on the issue and said that if noone objected I planned to file a removal request with the release team. I now request that rust-weedle and rust-wasm-bindgen-webidl are removed from testing so that rust-nom and it's reverse dependencies can migrate. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.11 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
