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> If you compile my Rust library against dependencies that are not compatible as declared in Cargo.toml, the result is on you. The annoying thing is that that

> If you compile my Rust library against dependencies that are not compatible as declared in Cargo.toml, the result is on you. The annoying thing is that that was always supposed to be true. Users of distro packages are already supposed to report all bugs to the package maintainers, and then they deal with it. Sometimes part of dealing with it is finding that a bug did in fact originate upstream and reporting it, but that was never supposed to be step 1.

XorNot 2y ago
The thing is user's want a solution: if a user is reporting a bug then already two things are true: (1) they're experiencing it and it's blocking them from using the software and (2) it's significant enough to their process they didn't just install something else. So "user reporting a bug" is already an unusually highly motivated individual compared to the alternatives. Which leads to (3) they were trying to use the software right then, and a response from package maintainers of "this is an upstream bug" doesn't solve the problem, and in fact barely implies that a solution might be being requested from upstream. Which also leads to (4): the most common immediate resolution anyone is going to present that user is "use the latest version / master / whatever". Which means the user is already going to make the transition to "now I'm a direct upstream user" (and equally the high probability the bug might still exist in upstream anyway).