[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc in Debian testing

Ximin Luo infinity0 at debian.org
Mon Nov 7 19:53:00 UTC 2016


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.
> 

Sounds good! You are welcome to put it here of course:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-rust/

and maybe other people can help you with the remaining tasks. :)

X

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