Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-18 Thread Ximin Luo
intrigeri: > Hi, > > Ximin Luo: >> Who is using reprepro to archive Debian Rust packages? That's the >> first time I've heard of this. > > I'm happy to document one specific example, in the hope that it helps > this discussion adopt a user-centric approach :) > Users do not care about

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread fin4478 fin4478
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:06:00 + Ximin Luo wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > Debian should remove this kind of packages immediately. No way to make a Debian Sid installer with Simple-CDD now. The Rust language is for people who make null pointer and buffer overflow bugs and those people

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > I will see how to add a lintian check to block that from happening again. FWIW, I already filed #942493 against lintian this morning. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS:

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ximin Luo wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix This is clearly not acceptable. You can't ignore problems like this one. I saw you already broke debian-installer once with the former packages that overflowed the 16K limit of cdebootstrap. Now it's the turn of reprepro and this

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread Ximin Luo
Control: tags -1 + wontfix Ansgar: > Sylvestre Ledru writes: >> Le 17/10/2019 à 09:25, Ansgar a écrit : >>> in addition a 256kB Provides field seems very hard on the total size of >>> the Packages index. Please don't do that... >>> >> To be clear, this isn't done by a human. This is a tool

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread Ansgar
Sylvestre Ledru writes: > Le 17/10/2019 à 09:25, Ansgar a écrit : >> in addition a 256kB Provides field seems very hard on the total size of >> the Packages index. Please don't do that... >> > To be clear, this isn't done by a human. This is a tool generating > this for us. Then the tool has a

Bug#942487: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#942487: rust-web-sys: Provides header is more than 256K long and it breaks reprepro...

2019-10-17 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le 17/10/2019 à 09:25, Ansgar a écrit : Hi, in addition a 256kB Provides field seems very hard on the total size of the Packages index. Please don't do that... To be clear, this isn't done by a human. This is a tool generating this for us. I will see how to add a lintian check to block that