[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rust-ripgrep 0.9.0-4 MIGRATED to testing

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sat Sep 8 08:55:00 BST 2018


Ximin Luo:
> This should not have happened, ripgrep was not ready yet. https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/rust-ripgrep
> 
> It build-depends on (e.g.) librust-clap-2+color-dev
> 
> which is a virtual-package provided by https://packages.debian.org/sid/librust-clap+color-dev
> 
> but this package is not yet in Debian Testing, and no other packages in Debian Testing provide the same virtual package.
> 
> I wanted to file a bug here https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/britney2 but salsa is down atm.
> 
> X
> 
> [...]

Hi,

>From a quick look at the situation, this is expected behaviour as there
is only partial support for Build-Depends (please see #903211 comment 10
for details).

We are of course happy to improve the documentation[1] on how to make
these limitations more obvious.

Thanks,
~Niels

[1] https://release.debian.org/doc/britney/
Source: docs folder in the britney2 repo




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