[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Rust Packages

[Joerg Jaspert]

Hi

for whatever reason I took up NEW processing again recently, and well, 
rust packages currently make up a load of those waiting in the queue. 
And they give me the creeps, seeing they are mostly empty binary 
packages with only a usr/share/doc/$something symlink. One to a dozen, 
per source package, for those. Depending on however many feature flags 
upstream seems to have set.

For the last days I skipped on those packages, as right now I would only 
be able to react with a reject, but that is not a situation that I like 
Neither is it helping you or the users.

A quick shout into the ftpmaster channel got me the info that there was 
a Rust BoF during the recent DebConf where this issue got discussed, 
with Bastian taking part in it, and - as i understand - also being 
negative about the current way.
First off, does anyone have a good set of minutes from that session 
(please don't have me listen through it all. If it would be written 
chat, like irc, fine, but audio? Bah), and more important, did any 
action afterwards happen to come up with a nicer way?
And then, which way would that way be?

Or the other way round, for someone that has only a very basic 
understanding of rust - whats the goal here that should be supported? 
Maybe we can come up with a better way that doesn't let our tools or 
Package files explode needlessly?

-- 
bye, Joerg
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