[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: Bug#942487: Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

[Ximin Luo]

Raphael Hertzog:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
> 
> This is clearly not acceptable. You can't ignore problems like this one.
> I saw you already broke debian-installer once with the former packages
> that overflowed the 16K limit of cdebootstrap. Now it's the turn of
> reprepro and this one is harder to fix because there are real servers
> running stable version of reprepro, etc.
> 
>> The tool's algorithm was suggested by the maintainer of dpkg and has his
>> blessing. It is partly due to limitations in dpkg, see #901827 for
>> details.
> 
> The algorithm is one thing... but the design of your tool is another
> thing.
> 
> dpkg has dpkg-shlibdeps to build dependencies based on exported
> information by various package (through
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.{shlibs,symbols}).
> 
> cargo should build the same infrastructure, i.e. have a
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.cargo used by dh-cargo to build the correct
> dependency.
> 
> Don't abuse the "Provides" field when you have such a volume of
> interfaces to document.
> 

Can you please explain why 256 KB provides field is "abuse"?

Do you have some concrete suggestions on how to improve the tool to reduce this "abuse"?

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