[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc in Debian testing

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:21:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> 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.

I have 95% of the code needed to automatically convert Cargo crates to
Debian source packages; I just need to finish the dh buildsystem bits.
I should get that published somewhere in its current state.

- Josh Triplett