On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 14:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Personally I think this boilerplate has little to no value, cutting the
> long sentence down to something like just "Rust crate foo" would help
This change has now been merged and will reach Debian eventually:
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 19:05 +0200, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> the structured metadata of crates only has a short description[0]
Would the Debian Rust team be willing to talk to the upstream
Rust community on adding the concept of crate long descriptions?
> which is often also not very
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:10:58AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian have boilerplate
> long descriptions that aren't very useful to Debian users. The only
> useful info is the crate name, but that is also in the package name.
>
> As far
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Hi Johannes,
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes:
> Quoting Gard Spreemann (2023-09-20 09:26:58)
>> Paul Wise writes:
>> > […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and
>> > therefore have no human users.
>> I just wanted to raise awareness that some of us humans do
Hi Gard,
Quoting Gard Spreemann (2023-09-20 09:26:58)
> Paul Wise writes:
> > […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and
> > therefore have no human users.
> I just wanted to raise awareness that some of us humans do use librust-*-dev
> packages directly, having put
> "Paul" == Paul Wise writes:
Paul> Hi all, I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian
Paul> have boilerplate long descriptions that aren't very useful to
Paul> Debian users. The only useful info is the crate name, but that
Paul> is also in the package name.
Hi,
Paul Wise writes:
> […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and
> therefore have no human users.
I just wanted to raise awareness that some of us humans do use
librust-*-dev packages directly, having put cargo in permanent offline
mode and having swapped out its
Hi
Le mer. 20 sept. 2023, 04:11, Paul Wise a écrit :
>
> So I would like to suggest Debian relax our requirements around binary
> package descriptions, especially for Rust binary packages.
>
> Does anyone object to this change?
>
Yes, definitely.
I know it is a pain to write those texts, but
Quoting Paul Wise (2023-09-20 04:10:58)
> I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian have boilerplate
> long descriptions that aren't very useful to Debian users. The only
> useful info is the crate name, but that is also in the package name.
>
> As far as I know they inherit this
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