[Pkg-rust-maintainers] debcargo -- Randomly adds and removes binary packages

[Bastian Blank]

Package: debcargo
Severity: serious

Hi Sylvestre

I'm filling this as bug now.  Please discuss this issue there.

I'm setting it to serious as several ftp team members told you not to do
that.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 06:57:33PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le 17/10/2019 à 18:52, Ansgar a écrit :
> > Sylvestre Ledru writes:
> > > Moreover, the creation (or deletion) of new packages is automatically
> > > managed by debcargo (our tooling).
> > Why do you need to automatically create/remove binary packages?
> Because it is the way it is managed in Rust packages. This is done to
> express what
> the package provides. For now, it has been working very well.
> 
> But this isn't an issue specific to Rust. Having to go through NEW when it
> is the same
> source isn't a good use of our time and introduces some unnecessary latency
> and frustration.
> 
> >  From looking at the package with the insane large Provides field, it
> > seems like it creates empty binary packages to avoid some dependencies
> > on other development packages to safe ~50k of downloads?  I would
> > suggest to just accept the 50k extra downloads for packages for people
> > using the rust development packages rather than creating extra binary
> > packages.
> 
> Sure but this isn't directly related to this discussion. I also do agree
> that we should
> address this issue.

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