[Pkg-rust-maintainers] heads up, rustc.deb now building with system LLVM

[Luca Bruno]

On Friday 27 February 2015 10:23:32 Angus Lees wrote:

> now building with system LLVM. It passes my local build tests, but if 
> there's any issues then revert at will.

This is great news, as we pushed quite a bit in order to have alpha2 in sync 
with 3.6. Big thanks to Björn for patching the last missing pieces in 
rustllvm.

I'm however a bit fearful, as when asked upstream doesn't seem to have a 
single vision on this[0], and compatibility plans looked a bit unreal.

[0] http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/targeted-llvm-for-1-0/1371

Plus, patches against LLVM are again starting piling up (currently 2, both 
rust-specific). Maybe we should note them down on a wiki page and periodically 
recheck them, to avoid suddenly ending in a major screwed due to some 
important patches missing on our LLVM.

>   * Patch upstream manpages to address minor troff issues

This is good and I saw your (still open) PR.
However, I'd like to stick to a policy common to other packaging teams:
don't carry any patches generated on our own (expect when debian-specific), 
but only backport them once committed upstream.
This is because I'd like to avoid constantly rebasing patches, and for code 
stuff avoid big screw-ups á-la openssl.  

Cheers, Luca

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