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Re: packaging rfc3161-client

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 03:55:07PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi Rust & Python teams,
> 
> I would like to package:
> 
> https://github.com/trailofbits/rfc3161-client
> 
> It is a Python library that ships with and needs a Rust crate to work,
> the separation is best explained by upstream:
> 
>    It is composed of three subprojects:
> 
>    🦀 tsp-asn1: A Rust crate using rust-asn1 to create the types used by
>    the Time-Stamp protocol. This crate depends on rust-asn1 and
>    cryptography to minimize the amount of duplicated code. While it is
>    usable as a standalone crate, this is not officially supported. Drop
>    us a message if you are interested in using it.
> 
>    🦀 rfc3161-client: Another Rust crate that provides Python bindings
>    to the tsp-asn1 crate using PyO3.
> 
>    🐍 rfc3161-client A Python library using the crate above to provide a
>    usable API to create Timestamp Request and read Timestamp Response.
> 
> Are there similar projects that are packaged in Debian that I look at
> for inspiration?
> 
> Any thoughts on if this be split up into two separate Debian source
> packages, one maintained by the rust team following their policies and
> ship the crates - and one source package maintained by the python team
> following their policies that ship the library and depend on the rust
> packages -- or just one source package with a more complicated
> maintainership and build process?
> 
> I have started python-like packaging here:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-rfc3161-client/
> 
> However it lacks the Rust part.  Would someone who knows Rust want to
> join me working on this package?  I'm still learning Python packaging so
> I hope to help on that, but I haven't done any Rust packaging at all...
> forks, merge requests, commits etc appreciated.

I've packaged a few Python packages that are fully or partially built in rust. The simplest examples are probably:

* dulwich
* python-upstream-ontologist

More advanced are e.g.:

* ruff

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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