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

[Bastian Blank]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:25:51PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> The more precise reason, as I have explained many times already, is because the cargo package manager supports crates having optional dependencies. It is not feasible to automatically merge optional-dependency-sets together because it results in dependency loops that would not otherwise exist. It is not economically feasible to manually merge these sets together either, because it is boring and time-consuming work, error-prone (hard to manually tell if you did or did not introduce a cycle) and of questionable benefit.

We told you several times that cycles in Debian packages are supported.

> We are all volunteers, there is no "job security" here, why are we manually reviewing empty packages and we are we trying to conserve a process that involves manually reviewing empty packages?

So is the ftp team.

Regards,
Bastian

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