On Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:11, Moritz Bauer <moritz.bauer.06@gmx.de> wrote:
Dear Rust Packaging Team, I am working on packaging onefetch (2.25.0). onefetch has a dependency on tokei which is available in Debian at version 12.1.2. However onefetch depends on version 13.0.0-alpha.8 which is not only a new major version but also a pre-release version (stable 13.0.0 does not exist yet). How should I deal with that? Or does this mean that onefetch can not be packaged until tokei 13.0.0 is released and onefetch depends on that instead? Thanks in advance! Regards, Moritz
Hi Moritz,you can try to relax the dependency on tokei by adding a patch that downgrades it to 12.x. If that does not work because of an abi bump, then you'll need to package the prerelease version of tokei. From a quick search tokei has no reverse dependencies, so this can just be updated standalone. I would advise to try patching and building with 12.x; and then updating all to 13.x if that is released. Feel free to ask here or on #debian-rust IRC if you need the beta version.
best, werdahias