Hi all,
Doing some end-of-year "does this still spark joy?" type of chores, I decided to orphan a few packages for command-line tools (written in Rust) that I picked up at some point but which I myself don't use:
- rust-git-delta - rust-gitui + rust-asyncgit - rust-sd - rust-silver
Some notes for potential maintainers:
Some of these don't see regular updates - sd and silver are years old at this point. rust-git-delta, rust-gitui, and rust-silver all depend on the Rust bindings for libgit2. This is a constant pain point, because they need to be patched for new libgit2 bindings versions to address security issues in the bundled libgit2. (Yes, *not* using the bundled libgit2 was considered, and was considered *worse*. The Rust bindings only ever support *one* specific minor version of libgit2, and silently / subtly break with other versions due to ABI incompatibilities.)
A number of similar packages I don't use were already redistributed internally in the Rust SIG:
- rust-bat - rust-fd-find - rust-lsd - rust-tokei
Three of these (bat, lsd, tokei) *also* depend on the libgit2 Rust bindings, and share the maintenance annoyances of the other packages. :)
Happy Holidays. Fabio