[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Create team repository

[Wolfgang Silbermayr]

On 8/30/20 1:51 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 30/08/2020 à 13:33, Willem van den Akker a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to push the private shortwave repository (
>> https://salsa.debian.org/wvdakker/shortwave) to a team repository.
>>
>> Can somebody create a team repository and give me write/create rights
>> to this repository?
>>
>> David can you give your salsa account name to the list for the
>> write/create rights?
>>
>>
>> My username on salsa: wvdakker
>>
> 
> we have been trying to package Rust-based applications as part of debcargo-conf.
> It simplifies a lot the maintenance of these packages.
> 
> Would it be possible to use this method instead?

>From what I have seen, shortwave uses meson and wraps the rust build inside
it. It seems this pattern has been embraced by a few gtk-based Rust packages,
such as Fractal, Shortwave and Podcasts.

It seems as if the meson build does more than just wrapping the rust build, so
I assume it might be better to find a way to keep it like that, and modify the
cargo/rustc calls so they use packages from the debcargo-conf repo.

I'm also not a totally sure that the rust team is the best fit for providing a
home to these projects, maybe the gnome team is a better place, they already
maintain projects in other languages than C, such as Vala or Python. If you
think the rust team is better suited, you're of course welcome.

BR, Wolfgang.