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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Ximin,

On Mon 19 Oct 2020 at 08:34pm +01, Ximin Luo wrote:

> I seem to remember that we did some calculations and the sizes are not
> significantly affected by these empty packages. For every empty rust
> package, there is >1 non-empty rust package. A 50% metadata bloat of
> what is probably ~2-3% of the whole Debian archive is not a big deal,
> and bandwidth is constantly getting cheaper. 5G and/or fiber is coming
> to a postcode near you within the next few years I am sure.

We have lots of users in various parts of the world with much worse
Internet connections than the average DD.  It would be good to continue
to support those users where we can.

-- 
Sean Whitton