[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#945542: debcargo -- Adds and removes binary packages

[Bastian Blank]

Hi Sylvestre

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 07:31:05PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > I'm filling this as bug now.  Please discuss this issue there.
> First, this isn't random. This is generated from the features of the crate.
> I am not sure to understand what is wrong with that? It isn't uncommon to add/remove
> binaries from a source package (I am doing that often with llvm-toolchain).

No.  But is not common to do that automatically, on thousands of source
packages.  So much you even asked the ftp team to drop part of their
checks on new binary packages.

> > I'm setting it to serious as several ftp team members told you not to do
> > that.
> Could you please explain what you mean by "that"?

Adding new binary packages automatically.  This whole thread was about
the problems of adding new binary packages all the time and you wanted
to way around binary-NEW for them.  Not making the scope clear was my
bad and I want to apologize for it.

> AFAIK, it happens just twice (librust-web-sys-dev & librust-winapi-dev) on Rust packages (on 681 packages).
> But I don't have the knowledge to fix that issue... :/

Okay.  Who does?  Please remove the wontfix from the bug about the
Provides, to declare it needs to be fixed.

Regards,
Bastian

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