[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#904485: Bug#904485: Bug#904485: Bug#904485: Bug#904485: librust-serde+{, serde-}derive-dev: unsatisfiable Depends: librust-serde-derive-1+default-dev

[Ximin Luo]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On 07/25/2018 12:32 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> The testing migration scripts prevent the temporarily-problematic packages from reaching Debian testing
> 
> Yes, but the scripts don't prevent piuparts from throwing errors and unstable
> users from writing invalid bug reports. Been there, done that when I was on
> the MATE team.
> 
>> , e.g. [1] so I don't see an issue with uploading to unstable directly. Uploading
>>  to experimental then unstable again, causes extra unnecessary work for us.
> 
> It causes a minimal extra work, yes. But it avoids these bug reports and long
> discussions. We have received such bug reports not just once in the MATE
> team but many times since many unstable users don't understand the concept
> of the NEW queue.
> 
> Other teams like the KDE team usually take the experimental detour as well,
> it's common practice.
> 

I think the cost-benefit trade-off for rust weighs more in the "just upload to unstable" direction. Piuparts can be fixed to understand this situation, and unstable users can be educated to understand what "unstable" means. Discussions don't have to be long.

X

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