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

[Ximin Luo]

Raphael Hertzog:
> [..]
> 
> It might not be as flexible as the current approach as it might require
> rebuilds when the package providing the interface changes, but that's
> quite usual in Debian.
> 

This isn't suitable for Rust, there will be too many rebuilds needed (basically half the ecosystem for every change, which happens 4-5 times a month) and I and I suspect everyone else will stop maintaining Rust packages if we are forced to do this.

> [..]
> 
> But reprepro is in wide use and your new package is the first one to
> trigger the limit. You can't just ignore the reality, you have to cope
> with the fact that we have reprepro users and that we can't deploy
> a package with 270K-long Provides header currently.
> 

Who is using reprepro to archive Debian Rust packages? That's the first time I've heard of this. I suspect this is a small number (its popcon [1] is less than that of rustc itself), and that they will be perfectly happy to upgrade to a fixed version of reprepro.

[1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=brlink@debian.org#reprepro

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