[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bootstrap of rust

[Jordan Justen]

On 2015-01-21 08:22:42, Luca Bruno wrote:
> 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),

I had been told by another DD that experimental doesn't really make
sense for 'new' packages. I was told it was useful for newer versions
of a package to make sure it did not break existing users of the
package.

> and removed the 0 before alpha. Feel free to re-add it if 
> there is a rationale I missed.

I added that. I just wanted us to have control of the versions since
'alpha' is not a number.

Likely, then will next release 1.0.0~beta, which will be greater than
1.0.0~alpha, but with the 0, we could for certain have control over
it.

Anyway, I think my concern with alpha is not too likely to be an
issue, so I don't mind your change to plain alpha.

> > > 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 don't think we should force push after the first upload.

And, I'm wondering when you guys think you'll try to do the first
upload? My experience with the new queue is 3+ months, and I think
rust 1.0.0 might be out before then.

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/1.0-Timeline.html

-Jordan