[Pkg-rust-maintainers] state of the rust ecosystem (and particularly rust-cbindgen) in Debian (was: Requesting backport of cbindgen > 0.10.0 to buster)

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 05:47:33PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> It seems that in the end Paul Gevers (elbrus) decided to just do a
> mass removal of rust stuff from testing, this did un-jam some stuff
> but it also excarbated the autopkgtest issues because a test that is
> already failing in testing is not a blocker for a new version to
> migrate, but once a package is out of testing the autopkgtest will
> stop it re-entering.

This is not something you should be complaining about: there are plans
(I don't know at which point they are) to *also* consider failing
autopkgtest in testing as RC.  This would mean that at some point soon,
even if a package starts to fail its autopkgtests in testing, it would
end up being removed as well.
The reasoning behind this is that it doesn't help anybody to have a
known-failing test without any other banchmark.

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