Quoting Diederik de Haas (2026-07-02 13:38:27) > Hi Jonas, > > On Thu Jul 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM CEST, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Diederik de Haas (2026-07-02 12:43:48) > >> In the salsa repo I found the following commit from 2025-01-14: > >> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/resvg/-/commit/332faffcf7160cab0c9a982e56c6127ceb6da3f5 > >> "drop C binding pbinary packages, hopefully only temporarily" > >> > >> But it doesn't say *why* they were dropped. Can you tell me? > >> Then I could at least have a go to (hopefully) fix the reason it was > >> dropped > >> in the first place. > > > > The reason it was dropped was simply that I couldn't figure out how to > > make it work with more recent upstream code, and at the time it seemed > > unused (at least for things packaged in Debian). > > > > If you can help figure out how to build the C binding, then that would > > That sounds like sth I could have a go at, thanks :-) > No idea if I will succeed though; various areas I have no experience with. > > > be much appreciated, and I would love to maintain it as part of the > > package. Also, if you are interested, you are most welcome to join me > > in co-maintaining the package. > > Possibly in the future. I know *very* little about Rust (but I am kind of > fascinated by it) and there is another Rust project I want to have a go at > packaging first. > Depending on how that goes, I may help co-maintain this package.
I am no expert in Rust, but have some experience packaging it by now. Perhaps you want me on board on your other pakcaging project? Even if you don't, feel free to ask me questions about Rust packaging. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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