The nbdkit crate. Why does Debian need a package for it?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 8:30 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 08:25:28AM -0700, alan somers wrote:
> IMHO this is a design bug in Debian. Sure, they need to create
> packages for any Rust crate that needs to install executable or .so
> files. But crates like nbdkit don't install anything. They're only
> used to build other Rust crates, and only used at compile time. They
> can simply be fetched during the package building process. I really
> don't know what Debian is doing by packaging this crate. Is it
> actually trying to install the ramdisk example?
I'm not sure I understand - which crate?
Rich.
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 7:27 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 07:17:14AM -0700, alan somers wrote:
> > > I think we should downgrade predicates-tree to 1.0.5 or older. I can
> > > submit a PR for that. What does "rustc --version" show you?
> >
> > Unfortunately our configure script doesn't collect that information
> > (it should do! - I'll fix that in a moment).
> >
> > But based on it being Debian 11 ("bullseye") it's likely to be:
> >
> >
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/rustc
> > Package: rustc (1.48.0+dfsg1-2)
> >
> > Which is pretty ancient ...
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 2:41 AM Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/jobs/3598390121
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > cargo build --release --example ramdisk
> > > > Downloading crates ...
> > > > Downloaded float-cmp v0.9.0
> > > > Downloaded downcast v0.11.0
> > > > Downloaded mockall_derive v0.11.3
> > > > Downloaded itertools v0.10.5
> > > > Downloaded aho-corasick v0.7.20
> > > > Downloaded predicates-tree v1.0.7
> > > > error: failed to parse manifest at
`/root/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/predicates-tree-1.0.7/Cargo.toml`
> > > > Caused by:
> > > > failed to parse the `edition` key
> > > > Caused by:
> > > > this version of Cargo is older than the `2021` edition, and only
supports `2015` and `2018` editions.
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > nbdkit itself uses edition = 2018, but this seems to affects one of
> > > > the dependencies.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure how to solve this, but one ideas I had is in
./configure
> > > > to check if the cargo/rust we're trying to use doesn't
support some
> > > > base edition (eg. latest edition supported < 2021) then we would
> > > > disable rust bindings.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately actually getting the latest supported edition seems
> > > > hard. The best I could find is parsing this which doesn't seem
ideal:
> > > >
> > > > $ rustc --help |& grep -- --edition
> > > > --edition 2015|2018|2021|2024
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > Rich.
> > > >
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