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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 03/02/2020 à 10:47, Carsten Schoenert a écrit :
> 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?

I have been told that the transition of one of the build-dep is blocked by packages blocked in NEW...
Not sure which one.

We already started a discussion with the Debian release management team to simplify the acceptation of
packages already existing in the archive but with a new binary coming.

> While Fosdem I've talked with Paul 
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 
FYI, I've never been a QA manager at Mozilla. I was running the release management team
(but doing something else now).
But yeah, I do see what you mean.

Cheers,
Sylvestre