[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bootstrap of rust

[Luca Bruno]

On Wednesday 21 January 2015 09:40:20 Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> > It will download the stage0 snapshots and generate
> > ../rust_$VERSION.orig-dl.tar.gz.
> > 
> > It appears to be working, so I deleted debian/dl.
> 
> Hmm, what is the goal of this? Builder don't have access to the network ?!
> If you want this for the maintainer before the upload, please add a new
> target to debian/rules

Yes, that should be for the uploader to assemble all the pieces.
Just for reference, by policy this is usually a "get-orig-source" target in 
rules: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html

Seems to be working fine, but the version looks funky (where the "0" before 
alpha comes from?).
I'd just retargeted it to experimental (so we don't have to fear if we make 
major screwups), and removed the 0 before alpha. Feel free to re-add it if 
there is a rationale I missed.

> > I suppose, since there hasn't been an upload yet, we might consider
> > nuking debian/dl in the history and doing a force push. This should
> > allow git gc to reclaim the stage0 binary space from the git repo.
> 
> If you want go ahead, but not sure that 40M is a big deal.

I think we have to anyway organize the repo later (maybe DEP14?), so we can 
postpone this and declare a force-push day in some time.

> > I'm not sure this would be helpful, but I did get a rust-bin package
> > about 75% complete. It basically would just install the binaries that
> > the rust team releases.
> 
> what do you mean?

I parsed it as "for bootstrapping or testing purpose, I also made a plain 
binary installer".
Jordan, I think you can keep and push it to some personal repo, but I don't 
think we want/need to advertise this too much if there is no need ATM.

Thanks, Luca

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