RUSTSEC-2024-0436: paste - no longer maintained
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 204
- Forks
- 98
- PR merge metrics
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Description
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Package | paste |
| Version | 1.0.15 |
| Warning | unmaintained |
| URL | https://github.com/dtolnay/paste |
| Patched Versions | n/a |
The creator of the crate paste has stated in the README.md
that this project is not longer maintained as well as archived the repository
Possible Alternative(s)
pastey: a fork of paste and is aimed to be a drop-in replacement with additional features for paste cratewith_builtin_macros: crate providing a superset ofpaste's functionality including generalmacro_rules!eager expansions andconcat!/concat_idents!macros
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating where the Rust crate paste is declared and used, then read its README and compare the listed alternatives, pastey and with_builtin_macros. Determine which replacement preserves the current behavior and verify the SDK's Rust tests and builds; done means the unmaintained dependency is no longer required without regressions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100