[Rust] Re: cargo-rpm and rpmlib.rs

[Tony Arcieri]

Whoops, though I included it in the title, I forgot to mention: I also took
a shot at writing some Rust bindings to librpm/rpmlib, after first
generating bindings using bindgen:

https://github.com/iqlusion-io/crates/tree/master/rpmlib

I've gotten some great feedback from upstream RPM developers, particularly
around the mistakes of previous bindings:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/429

I'm still not super happy with the code on master, but I think I have a
path forward that should balance performance and memory safety concerns. I
also deliberately plan on exposing as few features as possible in the
public API, at least initially, as it seems a common problem with previous
bindings was exposing all of rpmlib's functionality including things
characterized as misfeatures by RPM's developers.

I should also note I'd be happy to upstream either of these projects to the
right home (and already have some interest on upstreaming the librpm/rpmlib
code to RPM itself), and am happy to relicense it or do whatever is needed.

-- 
Tony Arcieri