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Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68
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Jonathan Brielmaier |
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Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68 |
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Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:19:18 +0200 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 |
On 22.10.19 08:23, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hello fellow Guix,
>
> I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the
> heroic efforts of Amin Bandali <address@hidden>, a recently appointed
> co-maintainer of GNU IceCat, there now exists a preliminary version of
> IceCat 68 that builds successfully and works on Trisquel.
>
> The bad news is that IceCat 68 has a new dependency: rust-cbindgen,
> which itself depends on *245* other Rust libraries that are not yet
> packaged for Guix.
>
> I'm very glad for "guix import crate -r", which was able to enumerate
> this list of dependencies for me, and to auto-generate ~267 kilobytes of
> new package definitions, but unfortunately it was only able to deduce
> the license for about half of those. 131 out of 245 of these new
> package definitions have (license #f). I'm not sure what's up with
> that, but it might be necessary to manually determine the licenses of
> these.
>
> Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 68.2 ESR today, along with a
> security advisory describing flaws in previous versions of Firefox which
> are fixed in 68.2. Many of these security flaws will affect IceCat 60,
> but the 60 ESR branch is no longer supported upstream. This means that
> we need to get IceCat 68 packaged ASAP.
>
> There are other urgent matters demanding my attention right now, so I
> cannot afford to do all of this work myself. I can take care of
> upgrading and debugging the IceCat 68 package itself -- I already have a
> preliminary patch capable of generating the source tarball -- but I need
> help packaging rust-cbindgen and its 245 dependencies.
>
> Who's willing to help? To get started: "guix import crate -r cbindgen".
Efraim made a proposal to overhaul the cargo-build-system. I think this
could be pretty interesting for cbindgen.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00180.html
I'm interested in a proper solution here, as Thunderbird needs also
cbindgen to build. Reminds me that I should share the state of my
Thunderbird "package"...
- Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Mark H Weaver, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, John Soo, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68,
Jonathan Brielmaier <=
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Efraim Flashner, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Mark H Weaver, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Mark H Weaver, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Efraim Flashner, 2019/10/22
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Efraim Flashner, 2019/10/23
- Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68, Mark H Weaver, 2019/10/23