Issue #3416: Change: Deprecate the async-std Rust crate - fesco

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#3416 Change: Deprecate the async-std Rust crate

Closed: Accepted Jun 17, 2025 by zbyszek. Opened Jun 8, 2025 by amoloney.

The async-std Rust crate is no longer maintained and was deprecated in favor of the smol crate by the upstream project. This Change is about marking the package for this Rust crate as deprecated() too to reflect this.

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zbyszek commented Jun 10, 2025

$ fedrq wrsrc -X -F source -b rawhide rust-async-std
rust-async-generic
rust-async-session
rust-async-std-resolver
rust-backoff
rust-cached
rust-compress-tools
rust-cookie-factory
rust-crossterm
rust-crossterm0.25
rust-crossterm0.26
rust-crossterm0.27
rust-ethtool
rust-flume
rust-fs4
rust-futures-intrusive
rust-futures-timer
rust-genetlink
rust-gix
rust-gix-packetline
rust-gix-transport
rust-io-extras
rust-io-lifetimes
rust-io-lifetimes1
rust-maybe-async
rust-mptcp-pm
rust-notify-rust
rust-quinn
rust-redis
rust-socketpair
rust-sqlx
rust-sqlx-core
rust-sqlx-macros-core
rust-triggered
rust-wl-nl80211

Quite a few packages ;(

Anyway, +1.

decathorpe commented Jun 15, 2025

Yes, it used to be quite popular, but with it having been officially deprecated upstream it will just not see any further development - so no new Fedora packages should depend on it (which is exactly what marking it as deprecated() does). Note that at least some of these reverse dependencies are due to optional support for async-std, not due to a hard dependency.