On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:47:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
So why bother, no Rust people will use it, they just use Cargo and it gets stuff for them. Why bother packaging anything when people will not use it? All you need to have a working Rust system on Debian is curl and bash.
Users of an application written in Rust are not developers, they just want to install an app using whatever packaging mechanism the distro provides. Also, I would expect that the source library packages for Rust are likely just a build dependency and users are not building Rust binaries on their system. This is just a way for the Debian packagers to build packages and track dependencies using the tools and processes they already have in place.
Having said that, I don't disagree with you as I think it's a bit silly to replicate what cargo, maven and dub already provide OOTB and essentially duplicate their existing repositories. However, if Rust is going in this direction it can make sense for D to follow and just make the necessary improvements in Dub to support the process.
