[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Packaging a Rust application

[Ximin Luo]

Russ Allbery:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been playing around with Rust and have mostly finished my first
> non-trivial application, and would like to follow my typical practice of
> packaging anything non-trivial I write (initially just in my personal
> repo, but possibly for upload to Debian if people find it generally
> useful).
> 
> Is https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging up to date?  Are there any
> objections to or problems with me starting with the prerequisites for my
> application and working on uploading them to Debian?
> 
> I'm a touch confused about the current status because apt-cache search
> librust returns nothing at the moment in Debian unstable or experimental,
> which seems contrary to what I would expect from the packaging policy and
> makes me wonder if it's not a good idea to upload things to Debian yet.  I
> see there is some stuff in the NEW queue, though, so maybe that's my
> answer.
> 
Hi Russ yes that is up-to-date, since recently. There's nothing in unstable/experimental right now because it's taken us a while to get debcargo into a stage where it's suitable for use. Now that it is, we're ready to upload stuff, and have done a few already as you can see.

IRC was important a while back because debcargo development was going through many changes very quickly. Now we have solved pretty much all of the hard issues, the development has settled down a bit and I think it will be sufficient to use this mailing list if you don't like IRC.

Just make sure to update debcargo-conf.git whenever you make uploads so we don't duplicate work. You can start with README.rst, and more detailed specific instructions are output by the scripts after you run them successfully.

X

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