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Questions about Rust team for Kangrejos



Hello Debian Rustaceans,

I'm giving a presentation for the Kangrejos conference this week about
the status of Rust for Linux in Debian, and I need to provide some
background about Debian's specific needs and practices.  For the kernel
and Debian in general I have this scovered, but I am still a Rust
newbie.

So I have a few questions about the Rust team's practices:

- How do you choose which Rust toolchain version should go into a stable
releaze?  Is it simply the upstream version you are able to package
before the toolchain freeze?

- I see that newer versions of rustc are backported as "rustc-web" and
used to build browsers and a few other packages in (old)stable.  Is
there a policy for when to update this, beyond satisfying those
applicationss' minimum versions?

- How do you select which crates to package?  Is it simply "package
useful applications and their dependencies" or would you also package
popular library creates without expecting a specific rdep in Debian?

Thanks in advance,
Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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