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

[Ansgar]

On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 10:45 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Debian's repository format has costs for each package as we require
> > *all* users to process the entire Packages file which is already
> > quite
> > large (42+ MB).  As long as we do so, we cannot add too much
> > information
> > to this index.
> dkg opened this bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/942898
> to discuss about it.
> 
> To give some numbers, we have only 30 packages with more than 1000
> chars in the Provides field (25 are rust packages),
> representing 172k (17k compressed).
> It represents 0.3% of the current Packages size.

And I think 815 out of 1451 librust-* packages are currently empty ones
(I searched for `Installed-Size: 6`).  They consume ~0.93M of Packages,
or 2% of Packages.

Ansgar