Re: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] state of the rust ecosystem (and particularly rust-cbindgen) in Debian (was: Requesting backport of cbindgen > 0.10.0 to buster)

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le 10/04/2020 à 18:47, peter green a écrit :

(note: these are my observations as a maintainer of a derivative)

The rust ecosystem in Debian
recently had (and I expect still has) trouble to properly migrate to
testing 

Indeed there are still issues, most notablly IMO that firefox-esr's build-dependencies have been unsatisfiable in testing for over 7 months because rust-cbindgen has not been able to migrate to testing.

yeah, it is a shame :(

Especially when cbindgen's testsuite is fully green.

I think running autopkgtest for every crates is a bit overkill. 

Thanks for spending time to build that list. I would appreciate help to deal with this!

Cheers

Sylvestre