[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#786836: packaging not yet ready for mass/stable usage

[Luca Bruno]

[dropping the BTS]

On Thursday 10 December 2015 12:22:25 Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> I am working on the packaging of 1.5. I will close the bug as part of
> the upload.

Even better :)
We were talking about this today in IRC, and we think you'll probably get 
stuck on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29490

> I will also replace the hash of the package by the version as discussed
> a couple months ago.

After last mail from Angus, I got convinced that at this moment there is no 
gain in doing that.

My only point was to keep the same binary-pkg name to skip multiple NEW trips 
for alpha/beta/stable, but it is not really feasible.

The other feature is only cosmetic, but given that this package will never be 
installed manually, it is quite a marginal point.

I'm not sure what other thinks, but given that both ways have disadvantages:
 * hashes are hard to read and to correlate with real version
 * versions do not match with the real content of the package / soname 
I'd personally stay with hashes in binary package names. This at least stays 
as close as possible to usual .so policy in Debian.

Cheers, Luca

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