Re: Mapping Rust behavior 1:1 to Debian packages may not be a good idea
On Thu, Oct 27 2022, Blair Noctis wrote:
> I've been familiarizing myself with packaging Rust crates into Debian for a
> while. Recent observations lead me to suspect that, current practice of Rust
> packaging isn't optimal.
I have a question here: why are we bothering to encode anything about
features in the package system at all?
A build will fail if we have things that are missing for a needed
feature anyhow. IIRC golang has a similar concept now and they're not
trying to encode all that in the packaging system there.
It would make things SO much simpler, eliminate a ton of debian/patches,
etc. if we just didn't try to put extra stuff in the packaging system.
- John
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