[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...

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Who is using reprepro to archive Debian Rust packages? That's the first

Anybody who is mirroring Debian unstable with reprepro right now. I have
no special interest in rust, but I do maintain a debian derivative
that we build with reprepro merging debian testing and our own packages
(and we mirror unstable as well because we cherry-pick fixes from unsatble
from time to time, hence the reason why I discovered this before it has
his testing).

> 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.

Such a fixed version will not magically appear and will not be magically
deployed. I have no problem upgrading to a newer reprepro once there's a
fixed version but I do still believe that your use of Provides is abusive
and that you should rethink the approach.

Cheers,
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