Le 21/12/2022 à 05:25, Peter Green a écrit :
During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.
I make the following observations about this package.
* It relies on perma-unstable rustc features and this is the third
time it
has broken in the last two years due to changes in rustc.
* It has no long-term future, the future of "portable simd" is as a
feature
in the standard library "std::simd". This is also an unstable
feature at
present but at least has a path to stabilization.
* The current development team does not have access to the packed-simd
crate
on crates.io, so new releases are being released under the alternate
crate
name "packed-simd2".
* No applications in Debian currently use it, the only remaining reverse
dependencies are optional features in the encoding-rs, grep-searcher
and
grep crates.
* The upstream author of those crates said in a recent commit message
"I'm *very* close to just removing the 'simd-accel' feature
altogether."
Personally I think it's time for this package to go. Unless someone
expresses an intent to fix this package, I intend to patch the
encoding-rs
grep-searcher and grep crates to remove the "simd-accel" feature allowing
this package to be autoremoved from testing without taking any
applications
with it.
+1
Many thanks for looking into this :)
S
