[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc in Debian testing

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Mon Nov 7 21:23:32 UTC 2016


On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:15:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Josh Triplett:
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:53:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> >> 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. :)
> > 
> > Thanks!  Can I (josht-guest on Alioth) get the necessary permissions to
> > create a repository there?
> > 
> 
> Hey, yes you need to go here: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-rust/
> 
> Click on "Request to join" at the bottom right. Then Sylvestre / Luca will need to accept this. Then you can log into git.debian.org, go to /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-rust then run the setup-repository script to create your repo.

Thanks, done.



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