Quoting Peter Green (2022-08-13 17:10:15) > On 13/08/2022 14:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Peter Green (2022-08-13 15:33:21) > >> The new upstream version depends on the iana-time-zone crate, if/when > >> someone packages that crate and it passes trough NEW, I am happy to > >> update chrono. > > Thanks for your input, Peter. > > > > I don't really understand your last comment, however: I would expect > > that the maintainer of a package considers packaging dependencies as > > needed for maintaining the package - not just waiting idly for other to > > do so. > > Sadly there are a lot of under-maintained rust packages in Debian. > I got involved with the rust team, because the situation had > degraded to the point it was causing issues for my downstream > distribution. I fixed (and continue to fix) many issues that were > blocking up testing migration, and recently I have also been > looking at any bug reports that come in requesting new versions > of packages, or requesting that broken packages be fixed. If > said bug reports can be fixed easily I fix them, otherwise > I document what the blockers are. > > I'm reluctant to introduce new packages, because I see that > as taking long-term responsibility which I would rather > not take unless the package in question is meaningful to > me personally.
Makes good sense. Thanks for your work! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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