[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#880689: Bug#880689: dh-cargo: installs too much for libpkg

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Ralph Giles (2017-11-04 18:50:07)
> On 2017-11-04 3:51 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I believe that from your own rule, stuff generated during build by 
>> upstream build tools - typically but not necessarily listed in 
>> upstream .gitignore - should hot be installed either.
>
> Unfortunately, `cargo package` includes everything in the working 
> directory that's not in .gitignore or explicitly excluded by 
> Cargo.toml. so there are many .crate packages containing unnecessary 
> cruft.
>
> If the idea is to provide a local replacement for the upstream 
> crates.io repository, then the important thing is that the contents of 
> the .crate packages match, so the contents hash the same and builds 
> are reproducible.

Thanks for that additional information.  I believe this is exactly what 
we intend to do here (but I am new aboard, so don't lean too much on my 
input).


> You didn't cite a particular crate which is including .pc files, but
> filing a bug with upstream to exclude them in Cargo.toml would be the
> best way to address that.

You snipped the parted clarifying that the .pc came not from upstream 
but was created during my Debian package build:

> The ".pc" directory, created during build by a packaging helper tool, 
> should certainly not be installed.


 - Jonas

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