This fork compiles on stable rust: https://crates.io/crates/libalpm-fork
The code is taken from here: https://github.com/jameslzhu/alpm and published. Unfortunately, the real author of the code didn't publish it.
Hopefully it'll be resolved over time and "jameslzhu" will publishe their code themselves.
I've changed some function names to match rust convention (e.g. no 'get',
get_value() => value(), no shortened words desc => description).
Currently linux-only.