[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Rust Packages, BoF meeting notes

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> 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),

http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-rust/2020/debian-rust.2020-08-26-18.58.log.html#l-102
is what I'm aware of.


> and more important, did any action afterwards happen to come up with a nicer way?
> And then, which way would that way be?


Good question.

I do hope it is
the impulse that this project, Rust in Debian, was waiting for.

With the help of favorite $DEITY feel those who care about this project
comfortable enough[1] to speak freely in the up coming discussion.




> 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?

In case it stays quiet in here:
  Next scheduledd IRC-meeting in #debian-rust is
  Wednesday October 28th  19:00  UTC

Inviting FTP-Masters for that meeting.

 
> bye, Joerg
> 
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Regards
Geert Stappers
Fairly new to Rust

[1] on feeling uncomfortable: We all known the feeling, we all have a
reason and/or an excuse for it. And we all have to get beyond it.
-- 
Silence is hard to parse