Excellent, thoughtful article on the difference between dev needs and distro needs (and how to manage dependencies):
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A pleasant surprise: updating the direct dependencies in difftastic has reduced the total transitive dependencies. I wasn't expecting that.
I've learnt a surprising amount by looking at how other people are packaging my difftastic project!
(1) A local copy of the manual doesn't have the version (OpenBSD packaging fixes this).
(2) One of my dependencies has been yanked (Void Linux packaging fixes this).
I struggle with dependency syntax. I never remember what ^1.2.3 means or how it differs from ~1.2.3.
I believe both npm and cargo assign the same meanings to this notation, but it's less obvious than e.g. 1.x.
1.2.3 isn't an exact version constraint either!