[Pkg-rust-maintainers] build profiles [was : Re: Hi :)]

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 05/03/2015 01:20, Angus Lees wrote:
>
>     > I agree with this view and saw that somebody already renamed it
>     in git.
>     > However, we should ask for the package in NEW to be REJECTed
>     now, otherwise
>     > we'll probably confuse dak later when uploading alpha2.
>     > Am I right?
>     >
>     > Agreed, assuming the newer upload hasn't already been
>     noticed/merged by
>     > ftp-masters.  Afaik we're "just" waiting for the human-review
>     step at this
>     > point, so should we just mail them and point out the source
>     package rename?
>
>     Due to the number of packages in the queue, I suspect everything
>     is on hold
>     waiting for jessie release. I'll ask them to drop the current
>     "rust" so we can
>     upload alpha2 "rustc".
>
>     Speaking of which, do we default to !dlstage0 now? (ie. building
>     with locally
>     installed rustc?)
>     Are we all ok with uploading alpha2 this? We should then update
>     README.source
>     with the new status.
>
>
> From memory, the alpha.2 package defaults to !dlstage0 (ie: no build
> profile specified) but has the Build-Dep on rustc commented out.  This
> means a default build will give ./configure --local-rust=/usr,
> (presumably) find /usr/bin/rustc doesn't exist, and FTBFS.
>
> I think we should uncomment the rustc build-dep (with <!dlstage0>
> guard) so a default-build fails at checking dependencies stage.
>
> A default build after rustc.deb _is_ available would still ftbfs
> because of breaking changes in rustc but that will be solved through
> adding version restrictions on the build-dep - once we have the luxury
> of a stable rustc release already in the Debian archives :-)
>
I would like to upload it today or tomorrow. Are we ready for that or do
you want to land stuff?

Thanks
Sylvestre

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/attachments/20150305/6a17cd11/attachment.html>