[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Release impact of introducing a new archive section?

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Mon Jan 23 23:21:53 UTC 2017


[ Removed half the CC list ]

Josh Triplett writes:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:56:31PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Josh Triplett writes:
>> > Given that, can you please go ahead and add the two new sections for
>> > rust (https://bugs.debian.org/845576) and javascript
>> > (https://bugs.debian.org/753480), and update the override file for
>> > existing packages?  These packages should move to the "rust" section:
>> > rustc, cargo, libstd-rust*, and rust-*.  And all packages named
>> > node-*, libjs-*, and javascript-* should move to the "javascript"
>> > section.
>> 
>> I've done this now.

On second thoughts, shouldn't "libstd-rust-1.14" stay in the "libs"
section?  It is a runtime library package after all and quite
uninteresting for most users (only installed as a dependency).

That would keep the "rust" section a bit more clear when browsing it.

Ansgar



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