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Bug#1013357: ITP: rust-nom-bibtex -- BibTeX parser using nom



Quoting Nilesh Patra (2022-06-22 19:21:15)
> On 6/22/22 10:40 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > This package is needed by zola (bug#976052).
> > It will be maintained in the Debian section of Salsa, here:
> > <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rust-nom-bibtex>.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Thanks for your work, Jonas. I was just curious to know if there is a reason
> that you are not maintaining it in the rust-team itself (given that there is a team)?
> BTW, I am not (actively) a part of the team, myself - I might package $something rust in near future and
> hence the question.

The Rust team require all their packages be maintained in one giant git.
I disagree with that approach and am far more comfortable with
maintaining packages as one git per upstream project - as I do with the
other 500+ packages I maintain (which includes packages I maintain in
the Haskell team which has a similar approach but only by default: They
are open to some packages being maintained differently).

They also don't use Debbugs - but hopefully that's a thing of the past:
Recently at least one team member actively responds to bugs I file (but
there are still RC bugs hanging for *years* with zero response from the
team).

Oh, and their odd packaging style also means you may upset them if you
do a source-full NMU, seemingly because they need the source tarball to
fit exactly their custom setup (i.e. *not* a Github release but what is
distributed at crates.io).

If you decide to maintain Rust packages outside of the Rust team as
well, then I would be happy to form another team if that might be
interesting.  Otherwise you might want to consider reusing my fork of
dh-cargo which I adapted to behave more like general debhelper snippets,
less hardcoding of how the Rust team does packaging.

...Or if my whining here didn't scare you, then join the Rust team! :-)

Thanks for asking,

 - Jonas

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