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



Hi,

On 11-04-2020 17:59, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> there are plans
> (I don't know at which point they are) to *also* consider failing
> autopkgtest in testing as RC.

This already happened last year, see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/07/msg00002.html
[All autopkgtest failures considered RC for bullseye] and
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt [6. Quality Assurance
checks]

> This would mean that at some point soon,
> even if a package starts to fail its autopkgtests in testing, it would
> end up being removed as well.
> The reasoning behind this is that it doesn't help anybody to have a
> known-failing test without any other banchmark.

It's just that nobody has started mass-bug filing yet.

Paul

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