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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Le 09/10/2019 à 21:03, Chris Lamb a écrit :
> 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".
>
First, thanks for agreeing :)

Do you know where in the code we should inject the whitelist management ?

Thanks
Sylvestre