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

[kpcyrd]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:55:26PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I don't think that we can deal with a concern about serving users by
> arguing simply that not serving users in that way results in a net time
> saving for contributors.  The question is always whether serving users
> in that particular way is important to our mission.  So, I think we need
> to think in a more complex way than the sort of arithmetical approach
> you suggest.

I think it's more complicated than a boolean "is this important yes/no".
Some users definitely have very valid reasons to be interested in saving
every kilobyte, but this is also taking away limited contributor time
that could be spent in other ways.

For example, Arch Linux currently ships quite a few popular programs for
rust development that are still missing in Debian, and it's not too
uncommon that rust software has `pacman -S` install instructions for
Arch, `brew install` for MacOS and "git clone the repository and run
cargo install" for Debian. I'd rather focus on getting Debian on par
and I think a lot of Debian users feel the same.