Re: State of core-updates

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Am Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:56:38PM -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
>> OK!  We could probably merge staging into master and be done already.
>
> We should build it first. The last time I tried, there was a showstopper bug.
>
> Here it is:
> I tried to build staging for my profile on x86_64, but it failed with
> a dependency of ffmpeg, rust-rav1e-0.5.1. There is a newer version 0.6.3,
> but I did not simply update it, since the package looks particularly
> complicated, containing a phase:
>          (add-after 'configure 'force-rust-edition-2018
>            (lambda* (#:key vendor-dir #:allow-other-keys)
>              ;; Force all the dependencies to not be higher than edition 2018.
>              (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding #f))
>                (substitute* (find-files vendor-dir "Cargo.toml")
>                  (("edition = \\\"2021\\\"") "edition = \"2018\"")))))
> and many other changes.
>
> Leo suggested to remove the dependency as non-essential. On the other
> hand, I think the problem does not occur in core-updates, so one should
> have a look.

Fun, I think I may have a wip stashed entry trying to address that very
problem; last time I was stopped by libgit2 being too old but that was
updated since on master, IIRC.  I'll try taking a new look when I have
the chance.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim