[Pkg-rust-maintainers] [RFH] packing kmon

[Stephan Lachnit]

> We usually don't use debcargo directly, but it's called by scripts that
> live in our https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/
> repository. You might want to take a look at the README.rst in this repo
> for a general short introduction. There is also a blog entry by guiding
> through first steps at
> https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/

Ah I missed that. Thanks, I think I understand it a little bit more now.

> This case here is more of a false positive, as it looks like an example
> of a minimal kernel module used for demonstration purposes. I think the
> best in this case is to exclude it. You might as well decide to include
> it, but I assume it doesn't add a lot of value. You just have to
> consider, once the .orig.tar.*z file is in the Debian archive, it can't
> be changed in retrospective, so you'll have to decide with way to go,
> otherwise you'll have to wait for the next release of the crate in order
> to change your decision. Whichever you choose, you'll find an example
> `debcargo.toml` file in the https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo
> repo. The fields are `excludes` and `whitelist`.

Thanks again! I'll ponder about it. As a first step, I looked into the missing dependencies and created a MR (https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/merge_requests/100).

Stephan