[Pkg-rust-maintainers] state of the rust ecosystem (and particularly rust-cbindgen) in Debian (was: Requesting backport of cbindgen > 0.10.0 to buster)

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 10/04/2020 à 18:47, peter green a écrit :
>
> (note: these are my observations as a maintainer of a derivative)
>
>> The rust ecosystem in Debian
>> recently had (and I expect still has) trouble to properly migrate to
>> testing
> Indeed there are still issues, most notablly IMO that firefox-esr's 
> build-dependencies have been unsatisfiable in testing for over 7 
> months because rust-cbindgen has not been able to migrate to testing.

yeah, it is a shame :(

Especially when cbindgen's testsuite is fully green.

I think running autopkgtest for every crates is a bit overkill.

Thanks for spending time to build that list. I would appreciate help to 
deal with this!

Cheers

Sylvestre


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