[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Some rust packages would love to be prioritized

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Thanks Wolfgang for this great summary.
I would like to highlight that it is blocking the cbindgen transition.
Tool used by, at least, Firefox and Thunderbird (and impacting the two projects)

Thanks,
Sylvestre
Le 17/02/2020 à 12:16, Wolfgang Silbermayr a écrit :
> Dear FTP-Masters,
> 
> I know you are under a constant high workload recently, so I'm not very
> keen to put more work on your shoulders. Unfortunately in the
> debian-rust team, we have a situation that requires some support from
> your side.
> 
> I try to untangle the problems we have with getting some of our packages
> to migrate to testing. In the current situation, this leads to three
> packages that are currently in the NEW queue, which block these
> migrations (I hope this is an exhaustive list, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if we found some more after these are accepted):
> 
> * rust-compiler-builtins
> * rust-sval-derive
> * rust-sval
> 
> The compiler-builtins package has been rejected before due to some
> unclear license information. It has since been reviewed and documented
> in the copyright file by members of the debian-rust team, with pointers
> to the discussion in the upstream project added. These are *real* new
> source packages being uploaded the first time (in opposite to the case
> we sometimes have when a source package adds a new bin package).
> 
> It would be a huge help for the rust ecosystem inside debian to get
> these packages accepted. Please let us know if there is something to be
> done from our side, we're eager to clarify any obscurity.
> 
> Rationale for why these packages play such an important role:
> Within the crates ecosystem (crate = rust library), there is a
> combination of three crates at a very central location (proc-macro2,
> quote, syn). All three of them were released in version 1.0, and after
> that most rdeps got updated to that version. Due to several problems
> caused by the missing packages as mentioned above, the migration fails
> in migration phase 2 [0].
> 
> The release team started to worry about our packages being stuck in
> unstable for such a long period of time, which is why they approached us
> by mail [1] and in person at pre-FOSDEM MiniDebCamp to know that we are
> working on the problems. I also assume that this plays into the
> motivation of the latest release team policy update [2].
> 
> Best regards and thanks for your support,
> Wolfgang.
> 
> --
> 
> [0]
> https://release.debian.org/doc/britney/short-intro-to-migrations.html#migration-phase-2-installability-regression-testing
> [1]
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2020-February/009811.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/02/msg00005.html
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