Hi Ben, On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 02:10:02AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > - 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 think fabian is the right person to give a correct answer regarding this, but I think he tried to get the latest version available to trixie this time. And for that matter he always does a great job of basically always keeping rustc very uptodate in unstable. > - 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? Generally everything is packaged as a dependency for some application, which is often a lot of packages. And that ends up typically covering most of the very popular stuff. But then again there might be cases when people package something that is very useful but might be needed later for something else. I remember going down the surf dependency tree and packaging a bunch of stuff, but the package (the name of which I can't recall, maybe pnet_datalink or something else from pnet_* tree) did not require surf in a newever version. So I stopped surf packagig itself, but I think I still completed most of its dependencies so that if someone else wants to complete it, they have an easier time. This is probably not common though, but HTH. -- Best, Ananthu
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