Bug#1007882: RM: rust-weedle/0.12.0-2 rust-wasm-bindgen-webidl/0.2.75-1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@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
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