On 25/04/25 07:05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

Scaphande is now (pending upload) patched to no longer build-depend on
the protobuf crate. Turns out it was optional and already unused for
other reasons (will file a bug about that upstream).

Thanks Jonas!

As for erbium (via erbium-core), it looks like the functionality it uses
from prometheus (mostly DNS and DHCP) is independent of Protocol
Buffers, and decoupling prometheus from protobuf can be done without erbium-core FTBFS. So if we're ok with removing protobuf-codegen we
should be able to remove protobuf v2 and reintroduce v3 in forky when we
need it.

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I decoupled handlebars from the rest and filed [1] to also decouple
prometheus: erbium (its only (transitive) reverse dependency
application) doesn't use protobuf's functionality. This however is not a
small change, so it needs consensus from the team (hence the MR). Pros
and cons are detailed in [1].


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/merge_requests/898

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