[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#945542: Bug#945542: Bug#945542: debcargo -- Randomly adds and removes binary packages

[Ximin Luo]

Bastian Blank:
> Hi Ximin
> 
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 12:24:38PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:25:51PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>> Please stop fiddling with severities.
>> The maintainer of a package decides the severities and whether things are bugs or not. Neither have you provided a justification for "serious", it is not breaking anything.
> 
> The output of debcargo breaks the Debian archive by increasing the
> Package file much more then it needs to do.  Plus it can create
> oversized Provides lines.
> 
>> Manual cost, nobody is going to want to do this work. Do you want to do this work?
> 
> No idea what manual work you are talking about.  Of course I can modify
> debcargo and rip the code out to create the surplus packages.
> 
> I would have preferred it if you would do that yourself, but if you ask:
> yes, I will delete that code from debcargo.
> 

I don't understand what point you are making here. If you delete code from dpkg without thinking about the consequences, stuff is going to break.

Likewise, deleting code from debcargo like you're saying here, is going to break things. Fixing these breakages without simply undoing your deletion, will involve much more manual work.

X

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