Package: rust-rand An increasing number of packages in Debian are using rand 0.8 upstream, while it's generally possible to patch them to use 0.7 I think we should prefer patching stuff to use newer versions over packaging stuff to use older versions where possible. So I started investigating an upgrade to rand 0.8. I have been working through the involved packages, checking that they can be updated easilly
I've worked through most of the reverse-dependencies, I still have some left to do and some outstanding issues I have discovered, the main outstanding issues are. proptest gets two additional test failures when updated for the new rand, I have opened a bug report about this upstream. We need to figure out what to do about rust-petgraph, I tried to port it to the new version of rust-quickcheck but failed, i'm leaning towards simply removing the quickcheck feature from petgraph. newsboat is maintained outside the rust team, coordination with it's maintainer or a NMU will be needed. I have posted a text file with details of my investigations at https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/blob/master/rand-0.8-progress.txt