What is the use-case for rustup being packaged? rustup is just a thin wrapper around downloading binaries from a third
party, so why not just download it from the same third-party? It is geared at installing things in the local users' home
directory anyway.
Packaging rustup doesn't address the many limitations of rustup's rustc vs Debian's (excellently-packaged) rustc (eg
cross-language LTO, LLVM plugins, etc).
Matt
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 01:19:59 +0100 Ximin Luo <infini...@debian.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I agree that rustup should be in Debian. Achieving this is currently blocked on
either of these two issues:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/835 OR
- https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/-/merge_requests/22
If you want to help, achieving either of these would help to unblock progress.
X
Ralph Giles:
> I would also like to start off with a Debian-packaged rustup rather
> than having to install it from upstream.
>
> It's been discussed before, but I think no one was pursuaded to start
> maintaining a package. IIRC one issue was that rustup likes to update
> itself. You'd need to check how difficult it would be to have the
> system rustup always just install any updates in the user's .cargo
> subtree, without trying to write to the root filesytem. The user's
> local version would then take precedence through the normal PATH
> setting.
>
> I think there was also some concern about support over the lifetime of
> a debian release, should upstream change their API sufficiently to stop
> the packaged version working.
>
> -r
>
> On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 14:04 +0100, Martin Monperrus wrote:
>> Package: rustc
>> Version: 1.40.0+dfsg1-5
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Awesome Rust Debian Maintainers,
>>
>> I notice that rustup is not packaged for Debian. One option is to go
>> through
>> snap (https://snapcraft.io/install/rustup/debian) but native packages
>> are
>> preferable.
>>
>> Since rustup is used by many projects, it would be great to have it
>> natively on
>> Debian:
>>
>> apt-get install rustup
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
