FS#78638 : [chromium] Consider replacing depot_tools with teapot

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FS#78638 - [chromium] Consider replacing depot_tools with teapot_tools

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniele Basso (tiziodcaio) - Monday, 29 May 2023, 01:50 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 29 May 2023, 22:09 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category	Packages: Extra
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Description: teapot_tools is a new rustified version of depot_tools who could teorically be added to the extra repo because it's correctly versioned. It has other options useful for example in ~~FS#77107~~ and currently used with our cousin alpine... Now will test locally

- https://crates.io/crates/teapot_tools
- https://codeberg.org/selfisekai/teapot_tools

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Closed by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Monday, 29 May 2023, 22:09 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: We're mainly building Chromium from tarballs. The (currently unused) fetch-chromium-release script is happily using depot_tools without any problems so I don't see a need to consider alternatives.