Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Paul Wise wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:42 AM Colin Watson wrote:
>
>>    A memory-safe language with good testing support and a good testing
>>    culture would be great, though it does also need to work on every
>>    Debian architecture, which IIRC Rust doesn't quite; we've kicked
>>    around the idea of maybe a stripped-down Python in the past,
>
>This reminded me of Keith Packard's "Python for embedded systems", Snek:
>
>https://keithp.com/snek/

While that's a lovely thing for *really* small systems, if we're
contemplating a switch then I think we'd be much better just using a
*normal* Python from our own archive which we already know, maybe with
just a reduced set of modules available in the installer, Let's not
just jump from one limited special-case environment to another!

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