Package: lintian Version: 2.128.1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 debcargo
Hi! as discussed on IRC, this is a request for adding a new tag. Historically, Debian Rust team packages used a heuristic to split dependency trees/graphs by adding "empty" packages used just for the purpose of dependency tracking. This practice was later rejected/forbidden by the then responsible ftpmasters team. Such packages can be detected by virtue of having a package name like librust-<crate>[-version]+<feature>-dev , e.g. librust-foobar-2+something-dev while having *no files* shipped under /usr/share/cargo/registry One example in the archive for historical reasons would be `librust-curl+ssl-dev`, which is built from `rust-curl`, and contains only $ dpkg -L librust-curl+ssl-dev /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/librust-curl+ssl-dev /usr/share/doc/librust-curl+ssl-dev While we want to keep the few existing "grand-fathered" in packages like these, we don't want new instances going into the archive until a proper solution for sensible splitting is implemented. Such a solution can then override the lintian tag and include an explanation why this is done, and existing packages can add such an override with the next upload if they cannot be converted to drop the split-out packages. Thanks for your consideration, Fabian
