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: [email protected], [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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 > > > -- Sebastian Ramacher
