[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Help with packaging rust

[Ahmed Charles]

Thanks for the response, I'll definitely take a look at those things.

From: gus at debian.org
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 08:08:06 +0000
To: acharles at outlook.com; pkg-rust-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Help with packaging rust

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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