[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rust ecosystem worries of a release team member

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hi Sylvestre,

Am 04.01.20 um 17:19 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> Honestly, (shame on me) I didn't pay much attention to the cbindgen 
> migration
> or other migrations of rust binaries.
> 
> Mostly because when I look at the transition dashboard, I don't
> understand why they are blocked. For example:
> fd find is blocked by 
> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=rust-ansi-term
> Also because we are doing (too?) many changes.
> 
> Anyway, sorry about that, I will try to make cbindgen migrated asap!

is there any plan or list of issues ready that the rustc people are
aware that need be done next work prepared or written somewhere so other
Debian maintainers can see what's going on?

While Fosdem I've talked with Paul about the currently not migrating
Thunderbird package. And we talked of course about possibilities how to
solve the unfortunate situation. Quite a lot of of Debian users have
emailed me and asking why Thunderbird 68.x isn't available in testing
but Firefox is. And it's sometimes difficult to explain the users the
current situation, you as Mozilla QA manager for sure knows that the
current ESR cycle is almost on 50% of the planned lifetime.
Furthermore it's also quite difficult for AddOn maintainers in Debian to
work on the extensions and prepare them than for p-u too due the
outdated version of TB in testing.
The stable RM are also not that happy with that circumstance.

Maybe we need to create some more tools that helping to visualize a
dependency chain and mark some package that need to worked on first.
Such tools could be a thing for GSoC?

So can we work out a list of packages that need to get prepared first to
get the dependencies fixed? I've no deeper knowledge of the Rust
ecosystem so my assumptions wouldn't help much I guess.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert