RUSTSEC-2024-0436: paste - no longer maintained

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#6 opened on Aug 6, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Refactor
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: rust
Domain: backend

Research direction

Start by checking the repository's dependency declarations for the paste crate and read the linked README.md and RustSec advisory. Compare the listed alternatives, then verify that the selected replacement builds and preserves the driver's current macro behavior; the issue does not name a test or source file to run.

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Description

paste - no longer maintained

Details
Status	unmaintained
Package	`paste`
Version	`1.0.15`
URL	https://github.com/dtolnay/paste
Date	2024-10-07

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 crate
with_builtin_macros: crate providing a superset of paste's functionality including general macro_rules! eager expansions and concat!/concat_idents! macros

See advisory page for additional details.

Dominant language: Rust
Stars: 1
Forks: 0
Avg merge: 1d 2h
Merged PRs (30d): 2

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