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Debian has a policy for a packaging Rust crates: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy If you
by DougBTX 5y ago
Debian has a policy for a packaging Rust crates:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy
If you restrict yourself to packages in the repo, won’t that resolve the issue? The idea of a distro is that all the packages in the distribution should play nicely together, but if you go outside that then version compatibility won’t be handled for you.
- pornel 5y agoDebian's repackaging is not useful for Rust developers. It's a tiny tiny fraction of Rust packages (Rust has over 60,000 now), and it's not integrated with Rust tooling. It's not useful for anything other than the few binaries written in Rust that Debian ships. Debian's policies are simply incompatible with the Chrome-like "evergreen" release model that Rust uses. I feel sorry for anyone who tries to use Debian's Rust. It is an awful experience.