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

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

On 05-01-2020 14:39, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Paul Gevers:
>> [..]
>>
>> [1] Now thunderbird is blocked by rust-cbindgen (last version migrated
>> in September with uploads since October), which is blocked by rust-syn
>> (last version migrated in July, with new uploads since August). Involved
>> is rust-proc-macro2 (last version migrated in July, with new uploads
>> since August (and currently triggers an autopkgtest regression)),
>> rust-unicode-xid (which has been trying to migrate to testing since
>> August),  rust-quote (trying to migrate since August). And I may be
>> missing others. rustc was involved at some moment, cargo was involved
>> (and FTBFS for some time) etc...

And today another firefox-esr, with CVE fixes, appeared, which is also
blocked by this.

> As discussed in #debian-release, this huge migration involving
> unicode-xid, proc-macro2, etc, is blocked on some packages in NEW as
> well as other things including the autopkgtests.>
> Please be aware that rust autopkgtests are a new experimental thing
> and as such will take a while to iron out. After that though, future
> stuff should be much easier.
If it really helps migrating this lot sooner, I am willing to accept
*new* autopkgtest results that fail (so no regressions) if you'll keep
on working to fix it. If so, please let me know which ones.

> To help this process, is there a way we can mass-download all the
> logs of all the failures? I basically want to grep all the rust-*
> failure logs for ^error, and group them per source package. That way
> it'll be easier to see which things we have to automate solutions
> for, and which things we can get away with a manual override.
As discussed on IRC, there is the excuses.(html|yaml) file that helps
with that. At least for migration blocking items.

Note, rust-debcargo (with your autopkgtest improvements) is also having
issues to migrate (due to rust-cargo, rust-git2, rust-glob, rust-im-rc,
rust-toml, rustc).

Paul

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