Bug#689207: rust: changing back from ITP to RFP
> This is an automatic email to change the status of rust back from ITP
> (Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug
> hasn't seen any activity during the last 10 months.
It's a bit unfortunate that this hijack happened quite quickly, as
background work on rust is ongoing.
Me and Tom Lee started working upstream to iron out some bits
(but it's still a long way), and Sylvestre too recently expressed
interest.
I'm currently trying to get libuv in sync, get it in debian and out of
rust source. LLVM is going to be next big beast after that. libuv is
currently stuck in NEW [0] and may not be currently usable as-is: it
will be probably bundled for some time.
With the fedora packager, we started noting down major issues with
current rust [1].
I have an initial packaging for 0.6/0.7 available on collab-maint [2],
and some monolithic binaries [3]. However I believe rust is still far
from being in a releasable state for Debian and much stuff has to
be discussed wrt. libraries ABI, runtime/compiler split, bootstrapping,
cross-arch, etc.
As a sidenote, I'm still working on both sides to get a proper package
in the archive.
Cheers, Luca
[0] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libuv_0.10.8-0~exp1.html
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-packaging
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=git/collab-maint/rust.git
[3] http://people.debian.org/~lucab/rust/
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