Re: Bug#1115714: impossible to install crate zerovec: depends on missing librust-twox-hash-2+xxhash64-dev

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>]

On 2025-09-20 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Alexander Kjäll (2025-09-20 19:45:07)
>>> It helps me (and Debian generally, I assume) that packages do not have
>>> missing dependencies or build-dependencies when introduced to unstable,
>>> and it is my understanding that when NEW queue is involved there is no
>>> way to know if they are missing or not because that would requre a
>>> crystal ball. Or am I missing something?

>> Could you explain how this helps? I don't really see it.

> It is helpful to me that I can generally expect Debian unstable to
> contain installable packages.

> It slows me down that for librust-*-dev packages I cannot simply check
> that some packages I need are listed in aptitude, but I need to check
> for each of them that their dependencies are ok.

> Does that make sense? I am having trouble understanding what it is that
> you cannot see, and wonder if we are talking past each other here.


And to spell it out explicitly we would prefer if you changed from
A)
        Upload $package + its missing dependencies to unstable

(Causing unstable containing broken packages for $random, posibly very
very long time))

to 

B)
        * Upload $package + its missing dependencies to experimental
        * Wait for all parts to pass through NEW
        * Re-upload everything to unstable

cu Andreas
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