[Pkg-rust-maintainers] state of the rust ecosystem (and particularly rust-cbindgen) in Debian

[peter green]

On 10/04/2020 18:17, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>
>
> Le 10/04/2020 à 18:47, peter green a écrit :
>>
>> (note: these are my observations as a maintainer of a derivative)
>>
>>> The rust ecosystem in Debian
>>> recently had (and I expect still has) trouble to properly migrate to
>>> testing
>> Indeed there are still issues, most notablly IMO that firefox-esr's build-dependencies have been unsatisfiable in testing for over 7 months because rust-cbindgen has not been able to migrate to testing.
>
> yeah, it is a shame :(
>
> Especially when cbindgen's testsuite is fully green.
>
> I think running autopkgtest for every crates is a bit overkill.
>
> Thanks for spending time to build that list. I would appreciate help to deal with this!
>
What kind of help you are looking for? I can look at packages and propose courses of action, possiblly even prepare patches, but not being a rust guy I would be quite reluctant to upload stuff that had not been checked over by someone else.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/attachments/20200412/1c7c1d4b/attachment-0001.html>