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
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 as I know they inherit this property from the upstream Rust
crates,
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