[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1021868: rustc: about the /usr/bin/rust-* symlinks

[Patrice Duroux]

Package: rustc
Version: 1.61.0+dfsg1-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Note that I am not familiar with rustc, llvm and their relationship.

But currently rustc have the following deps:

Recommends: cargo (>= 0.62.0~~), cargo (<< 0.63.0~~), llvm-14
Suggests: lld-14, clang-14

and provides some symlinks (/usr/bin/rust-*) targeting commands in some of
those packages.

Could these symlinks be packaged in another (suggested or recommended) package
like rustc-llvm
with a stronger dependency to the corresponding llvm packages so to not have
broken symlinks if
these llvm ones are not installed while rustc is installed?

Thanks,
Patrice


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages rustc depends on:
ii  binutils              2.39-8
ii  gcc                   4:12.2.0-1
ii  libc6                 2.35-3
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]  2.35-3
ii  libgcc-s1             12.2.0-5
ii  libstd-rust-dev       1.61.0+dfsg1-2

Versions of packages rustc recommends:
ii  cargo    0.57.0-7+b1
pn  llvm-14  <none>

Versions of packages rustc suggests:
pn  clang-14  <none>
pn  lld-14    <none>

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