[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Help with packaging rust

[Angus Lees]

Welcome!

The best way to get started is to jump right in and file bugs, write
patches, or start discussions.

You've almost certainly already found it, but the source is
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-rust/rust.git/

My personal big "todo" items are:

 - package up cargo
   (my preliminary work is
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-rust/cargo.git/log/?h=gus/wip-debian -
but I've stalled waiting for a cargo release that builds with a stable
rustc.  We could bundle the right rustc-nightly along with cargo, etc if we
wanted to package it right now but that solution still makes me feel dirty
:/  )

 - Get rustc.deb on more architectures
   - This is all about working out the cross-bootstrap story, since we
can't bundle the stage0 for every arch.  The Rust packaging now has a good
multiarch split, but I need to multiarch some of the build-deps (notably
llvm-3.6-dev) before this is possible.

 - Come up with a generic solution for packaging Rust libraries so they
still work with cargo
  - This may or may not be a prerequisite for packaging cargo itself.
  - I started a discussion (and proposal) here:
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/how-to-distro-package-a-cargo-using-rust-executable/1785
which people seem mostly ok with, but requires non-trivial work.

 - Take advantage of some of the Debian auto-testing environments.
  - Make some of the rustc test suite available to autopkgtest
  - Once we get cross-compiling working, something on ci.debian.net that
re-bootstraps a new arch - just to make sure it keeps working.

 - Gus

On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 at 11:38 Ahmed Charles <acharles at outlook.com> wrote:

> I'd like to help packaging rustc/cargo on debian. What's the best way to
> get started/help out?
>
> Thanks
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