[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Need some guidance regarding packaging for Debian

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 03:52:55AM +0530, Akshat Agarwal wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I was trying to package Deno for debian,
> 
> using `debcargo.conf` and I ran the command `./update.sh deno`
> but I am getting the error
>  ```
> Generate binary crate with default name 'deno', set bin_name to override or
> bin = false to disable.
> Something failed: Cannot represent prerelease part of dependency: notify
> Predicate { op: Compatible, major: 5, minor: Some(0), patch: Some(0), pre:
> [AlphaNumeric("pre"), Numeric(2)] }
> ```
> What could be the problem here?

Frankly: I don't know

https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf says
   "and follow its instructions"

Being unfamiliar with debcargo-conf  I can't tell if
   "set bin_name to override or bin = false to disable"
is part of such instructions.


I think it would a good idea to describe
how to reproduce the "Something failed"


Regards
Geert Stappers
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