[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

[Alexander Kjäll]

Hi Jonas

I'll second what James wrote, this was done by mistake by me as our
tooling didn't discover your package and I'm sorry for the extra work
it caused.

It would indeed be nice if we could collect all rust packaging efforts
together, that would reduce the risk of mistakes like these.

best regards
Alexander Kjäll

Den mån 8 apr. 2024 kl 12:41 skrev James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>:
>
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 09:58:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > And when you do hijack packages²³, then please be respectful and give
> > credit, by preserving/reviving past contributions in the changelog file.
>
> As the person who uploaded rust-lazy-regex-proc-macros, I wasn't aware
> the crate already existed in Debian and wasn't intending to upload a
> hijack of your package.  The Rust team _does_ have a lot of automated
> tooling and when I prepared the upload to NEW, it agreed the package was
> new.
>
> Now, that happens because our tooling is based around a 1:1 relationship
> of crate to source package where as you've been packaging an entire
> workspace as a source package. We need to adapt our tooling to better
> detect this so we get accurate information presented to us and avoid
> stepping on your work.
>
> I'd still prefer if we could consolidate our efforts into the rust
> team (and re-integrate your forks of our package helpers), rather than
> have two divergent sources of rust packaging.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> James
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