Re: Bug#1116365: librust-font-kit-dev: impossible to install: depend on missing librust-yeslogic-fontconfig-sys-5+default-dev
Hi Jonas
On 2025-09-26 12:07:35 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: librust-font-kit-dev
> Version: 0.14.2-2
> Severity: grave
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-rust@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Please keep your feud with the Rust team off of debian-devel. Thanks
Cheers
>
> Crate librust-font-kit-dev version 0.14.2-2 is impossible to install in
> unstable, currently: It depends on
> librust-yeslogic-fontconfig-sys-5+default-dev which is unavailable.
>
> Cc'ing Rust team list and debian-devel@l.d.o as an example of why I
> request to please upload known broken packages to experimental, not to
> unstable:
>
> A newer rust-font-kit 0.14.3-1 was released earlier today, directly to
> unstable despite it changes to tighten a build-dependency from
>
> librust-pathfinder-simd-0.5+default-dev,
>
> to
>
> librust-pathfinder-simd-0.5+default-dev (>= 0.5.5-~~),
>
> librust-pathfinder-simd-0.5+default-dev version 0.5.5 is not in unstable
> so is what I call "known broken". That package is currently at version
> 0.5.2, last updated in November 2023.
>
> To clarify, since I cannot read minds I do not claim that anyone in
> parcilular knew what they were doing here, only that it was known
> systematically - i.e. that it *would be* known to anyone actually
> looking. And in case the former sounds like I have low expectations on
> whether or not the Rust team is running blindfolded then no, I don't
> know if they knew or could know - when I looked now, the git-tracked
> source for the package apparently does not include a debian/control file
> so it *seems* possible that they are "blindfolded" by way of their
> choice of tooling. But let me emphasize that I am *not* pointing fingers
> at their tooling here, only at the choice of uploading to unstable what
> *could* be known as breakage by way of a simple debdiff before upload.
>
> - Jonas
>
>
>
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Sebastian Ramacher
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