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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 17/10/2019 à 18:52, Ansgar a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru writes:
>> Moreover, the creation (or deletion) of new packages is automatically
>> managed by debcargo (our tooling).
> Why do you need to automatically create/remove binary packages?

Because it is the way it is managed in Rust packages. This is done to 
express what
the package provides. For now, it has been working very well.

But this isn't an issue specific to Rust. Having to go through NEW when 
it is the same
source isn't a good use of our time and introduces some unnecessary 
latency and frustration.

>  From looking at the package with the insane large Provides field, it
> seems like it creates empty binary packages to avoid some dependencies
> on other development packages to safe ~50k of downloads?  I would
> suggest to just accept the 50k extra downloads for packages for people
> using the rust development packages rather than creating extra binary
> packages.

Sure but this isn't directly related to this discussion. I also do agree 
that we should
address this issue.

Cheers,
Sylvestre