Le 31/08/2015 00:22, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> On 30/08/15 21:42, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> On 21/08/15 10:33, Josh Triplett wrote:
>>>> Personally, I'm reluctant to break the release-channels experiment so close
>>>> to the 1.0 release.  We may well declare it failed and do something
>>>> different in future, but right now I think Debian has an important role to
>>>> play in demonstrating what the "stable" Rust world looks like and providing
>>>> pressure for upstreams to avoid unstable features.
>>> I don't think this would be breaking release-channels.  Rather, this
>>> would be demonstrating the value of that model.  Debian unstable, and
>>> thus testing and eventually stable, would get stable Rust releases.
>>> Debian experimental would get Rust builds with experimental features
>>> turned on.  Software uploaded to Debian unstable, for instance, would
>>> still have to build with stable Rust.
>>>
>> I'm trying this now, going to upload to mentors.debian.net if I succeed. 
>> Wish me luck!
>>
> I built these source packages using the attached script:
>
> Version 1.2.0.20150812.beta+dfsg1-1
> Version 1.2.0.20150830.nightly+dfsg1-1
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/rustc
>
> I haven't yet built binary packages out of them, though - the tests keep 
> failing. Next, I will play around with giving DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck to 
> cowbuilder.
What kind of failure?
>
> Some notes:
>
> - we could probably come up with a better system for the version strings
dates + changeset?
> - for the nightly, I dropped debian/patches/fix-test-llvm-3.6.diff which 
> seems to have been applied upstream
Indeed.
> - for some reason we bundle a src/etc/snapshot.pyc in the .debian.tar.gz and 
> force it to be ignored with debian/source/include-binaries, wtf?
Please avoid using "wtf" in this kind of discussion.
About the issue itself, I saw it too but didn't bother investigating it.
No big deal anywayy.
> - both beta and nightly have upgraded to jquery 2.1.4 but my upgrade script 
> doesn't account for this
should be trivial.
> - pretty sure we can symlink jquery.js in debian/rust-doc.links instead of 
> having debian/rules explicitly do it
I would be happy to apply a patch.
> - not sure what to do with the libstd-rust-xxxx stuff. I couldn't find the id 
> anywhere in the upstream source, even in the current debian sid version. 
> Also, will we continue to keep adding the old package versions to 
> Replaces/Breaks? This seems unsustainable.
We are aware of this and we decided to take this approach on purpose for
now. This is not perfect but as rust is a moving target,
we took this shortcut. We hope they will be able to improve/fix that
upstream in the near future.

Sylvestre


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