Re: packaging rfc3161-client

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>]

On 2025-08-26 8 h 50 a.m., Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Is there someone who like to help on the rfc3161-client package, which
> involves both Rust and Python?  Starting point is here:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rfc3161-client
>
> Build failure here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rfc3161-client/-/jobs/8106868
>
> I haven't had time to look into the pointers given earlier, I am hoping
> this is easy to solve for anyone familiar with Rust & Python packaging.
>
> There is good interaction with upstream going on about dependencies for
> the entire Sigstore stack --
> https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore-python/issues/1524 -- and I think
> we can influence things a little (like temporarily avoiding use of the
> UV build system for some Python code) if we put some cycles into
> preparing packages that are needed for Sigstore into Debian.
>
> /Simon
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
> > Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@jelmer.uk> writes:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Alexander Kjäll <alexander.kjall@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > As long as the Rust crates are published on crates.io then I think it would
> > > be easiest to package them in the rust team :)
> >
> > They aren't on creates.io.  Since the need arose from a python library,
> > I'll see if I can complete this within the python team, but if the Rust
> > part of this package turns out to be heavy I think that is a bad idea
> > and it should be split up or moved to Rust team.  Maybe upstream could
> > publish the Rust crate on crates.io and separate the project into two
> > parts eventually.
> >
> > weepingclown <weepingclown@disroot.org> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Top of my head, there is src:pendulum and
> > > src:python-orjson. *Probably* anything with a python3-maturin
> > > build-dep can be of help.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > I will try to learn from python-upstream-ontologist and python-orjson
> > which looks closest to this package.
> >
> > /Simon

Here's an example of a Python project I worked on that uses maturin:

https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-watchfiles

You'll need to patch the cargo file manually to use the right versions 
of the Rust packages in the Debian archive...

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