[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc in Debian testing

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre at mozilla.com
Tue Nov 8 08:37:15 UTC 2016


Le 07/11/2016 à 22:23, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> 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.
And approved!

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