On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Who is using reprepro to archive Debian Rust packages? That's the first
Anybody who is mirroring Debian unstable with reprepro right now. I have
no special interest in rust, but I do maintain a debian derivative
that we build with reprepro merging debian
Raphael Hertzog:
> [..]
>
> It might not be as flexible as the current approach as it might require
> rebuilds when the package providing the interface changes, but that's
> quite usual in Debian.
>
This isn't suitable for Rust, there will be too many rebuilds needed (basically
half the
Ansgar:
> Ximin Luo writes:
>> Raphael Hertzog:
>>> Don't abuse the "Provides" field when you have such a volume of
>>> interfaces to document.
>>
>> Can you please explain why 256 KB provides field is "abuse"?
>
> The Packages index is a shared resource by all packages and every Debian
> user
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:40:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Look, I'm not a cargo/rust expert, I won't design the tool for you but I
> implemented dpkg-gensymbols and the symbols support for dpkg-shlibdeps
> and I'm pretty confident that such a solution can work for your case too.
>
> We
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