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

[peter green]

On 12/04/2020 13:19, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
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>>> I think running autopkgtest for every crates is a bit overkill.
>>>
Should we just disable autopkgtests that have never passed?
>>> 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.
>>
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> Actually, I started :) but the CI queue is pretty long
> https://ci.debian.net/munin/debian.net/ci-master.debian.net/debci_queue_size.html
>
:/
> if you want to try with something easy, you could do the necessary sources upload.
Do I have permission to do that? how is membership of the rust team defined?

Also note that in my original mail some packages were in more than one list of problems, afaict there is only one package that only needs a source upload.
> in the debcargo-conf repo, just run ./update.sh <crate>
> git commit
Should I also be pushing? if so do I already have permission to do that by virtue of being a dd
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> ./release.sh <crate>
> cd build &&  ./build.sh <crate>
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> Cheers,
> Sylvestre