Time for your daily dose of #RustLang complaints. Yep, the ecosystem is doing great.

#UV depends on tokio-tar library. Tokio-tar is broken on #PowerPC, doesn't have a bug tracker (!) and seems to be quite dead, with a bunch of PRs ignored since 2022 (last activity mid-2023). Nevertheless, I've filed a PR to fix PowerPC, with little hope that it'll be merged, released and that we could get UV working on PowerPC.

On top of that, it seems that tokio-tar was forked in early 2021 from async-tar. It doesn't seem to have synced the few commits from 2021, and async-tar is dead since late 2021. But at least it has a bug tracker to keep track of how dead it is.

Rewriting stuff in Rust is great. Maintaining it afterwards for the sake of reverse dependencies isn't.

github.com/vorot93/tokio-tar/p

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