Published on 02/02/2024 00:01 by Jacob Latonis

100 Days of Yara in 2024: Day 33

In Day 02 and Day 32, I focused on maintenance for YARA-X itself. In both of these days, we encountered a deprecation notice with a specific repo: aig787/cargo-udeps-action. I opened an issue (#4) to document the deprecation notice way back in Day 02, and we’re facing it again in Day 32 and Day 33, so I decided to open a PR to remedy it!

This repository is for a GitHub Action that checks for unused dependencies in Rust projects as a code quality check.

Fixing the Warnings

As the deprecation warnings in Day 02 warned of node12 deprecation and Day 32 warned of node16 deprecation, the action needs to be updated to run on at least node20. To fix this, we can submit a PR for the action.yml in the repository which declares what it runs on.

Additionally, I bumped the version by a patch increment (1.0.0 -> 1.0.1) so the developer can release a new version with the fix.

Finished Work

Again, not everything is glamarous in development, and this is one of those annoying chores that needed to be done to clear up some tech debt. :)

This specific work implemented today can be seen in #5 on aig787/cargo-udeps-action, which YARA-X uses.

Written by Jacob Latonis