[Pkg-rust-maintainers] ITP: bat -- bat: A cat(1) clone with wings

[Paride Legovini]

Raju Devidas wrote on 29/08/2018:
> On बुधवार 29 ऑग 2018 05:26 म.पू., Paride Legovini wrote:
>> Raju Devidas wrote on 28/08/2018:
>>> Package: wnpp
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Owner: Raju Devidas <rajudev at disroot.org> 
>>>
>>> * Package name    : bat
>>>
>>> There is an RFP for this (#907080)
>>> I intend to maintain this package under Debian Rust Team. 
>>
>> The packing is actually already done (the very little Rust packages
>> normally require). See:
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/tree/master/src/bat/
>>
>> but several dependencies are still missing

> Thanks for letting me know. If the RFP would have been retitled earlier
> as an ITP, that would have saved me the trouble.
> But I understand, things happen.

The fact is that we normally proceed without ITPs in the Rust team, the
pace is quite faster than the Debian average. Also: the packaging is
very thin (basically just metadata) and all hosted in a single
repository (debcargo-conf), then debcargo (called by update.sh) builds
the actual Debian package. So normally is it enough to look in
debcargo-conf/src to see is a package is already being worked on. Even
the concept of Maintainer is still very fluid.

So yes, it is probably better to retitle the bug (it is still a RFP),
but in the specific case I don't think it makes a lot of difference.

> I'll see If I could help out with the dependencies later.

Please do! :)

Paride