miniblog.

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!