[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

[James McCoy]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 09:58:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> And when you do hijack packages²³, then please be respectful and give
> credit, by preserving/reviving past contributions in the changelog file.

As the person who uploaded rust-lazy-regex-proc-macros, I wasn't aware
the crate already existed in Debian and wasn't intending to upload a
hijack of your package.  The Rust team _does_ have a lot of automated
tooling and when I prepared the upload to NEW, it agreed the package was
new.

Now, that happens because our tooling is based around a 1:1 relationship
of crate to source package where as you've been packaging an entire
workspace as a source package. We need to adapt our tooling to better
detect this so we get accurate information presented to us and avoid
stepping on your work.

I'd still prefer if we could consolidate our efforts into the rust
team (and re-integrate your forks of our package helpers), rather than
have two divergent sources of rust packaging.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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