On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 11:40:12 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
Recompiling the dependency-chain of a software from source when compiling a package using the "right" compiler and statically adding the code is forbidden by distro policy.
Yet, from what I could find after a brief search, the Rust packaging guys are planning to do exactly that: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy#Library_package_structure
You might want to get in touch with them, particularly regarding
[…] require policy exceptions, which is something we won't do […]
before either side wastes more time on this than necessary. — David
