[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc in Debian testing

[Ximin Luo]

Willem Mali:
> Hi Ximin,
> 
> Could you tell me if the rustc package in Debian testing is stable enough
> to have other packages depending on it?
> I'd like to start making some Rust software and packaging it for Debian,
> but I'll go for another platform if packaging is still far removed. If
> possible I would like to help packaging Rust, but I'm not sure if I'll have
> enough skills to make a useful contribution.
> 

(resending to the list properly; got the wrong address in the last email)

Hi Willem, I'm adding our public mailing list as well as some other relevant people.

rustc in Debian itself is stable yes, and people are welcome to start depending on it. I think we are doing a decent job of keeping it up-to-date, and I personally recently got access to a high-powered build machine that makes this job much easier.

However, there is also cargo and cargo packaging policy - I am guessing that you will need these too. I myself only have the time (just about) to properly maintain rustc. 

Luca has been the one taking care of cargo, and I think he would definitely appreciate help with it. Also we haven't yet specified a policy on how cargo packages should translate into Debian packages. Luca and Josh had been discussing that a few months ago, but I don't know what the current progress is nor what the remaining issues are.

X

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