[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Getting rid of the NEW step for binaries ?

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Sylvestre et al.,

> As I don't recall a new binary being rejected in rust by ftpmaster,
> I would like to propose that we get rid of the NEW step for
> new binaries.

As some background, this has been a long-time and enduring request of
the NEW process and thus we are well aware of the considerations and
how this would improve the cadence and motivation of Debian as a whole.

Unless I have misunderstood the situation the FTP team are generally
amenable but unfortunately I can think of two people who have worked
on this in the past two years but the code did not end up reaching
dak. Whilst this might come across as dismissive, due to time
constraints on at least my part, I think I may have to revert to the
clichè of "patches welcome" at this point.

In terms of a concrete solution your suggestion of a package whitelist
is a good one -- I would only add that I personally would like the
potential option of being able to additionally whitelist transitions
along the linesof "libfoo1" → "libfoo2".


Best wishes,

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