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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Can you please explain why 256 KB provides field is "abuse"?

Because that's the amount of metadata required for 250 common packages.

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

Yes, I gave you one.

> BTW, the tool is run not at build time but to generate the source
> package. So it can't use these "foo.cargo" files, because you don't need
> to install all of the dependencies in order to use the tool.

If you run a tool to generate the source package, you can include
whatever call you want during your source package build. i.e. you
control debian/rules too. And you can process the source package
and/or the binary package built to create those meta-information
and also to use the existing meta-information on the system.

> It is 2019. If a tool can't handle 256 KB of data, I'd say the tool is
> at fault and not the 256 KB of data.

You are being arrogant. Replying in the same tone, I would say that the
design of your tool suck.

Cheers,
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