Quoting Helmut Grohne (2023-02-20 18:12:14) > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 08:14:17PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: > > > TL;DR: Is the switch to arch:all one that should be reverted in the face > > > of it apparently breaking cross builds? Or is there another alternative > > > (nowadays) that makes the "workaround" employed by debcargo no longer > > > needed? > > Yes, the switch to arch:all needs to be reverted at least partially.
Thanks, Fabian, for bringing this up, and thanks Helmut for the clarification. > Could it be that Jonas picked up such hints and thus added m-a:foreign? > Then later a C binding was added to the mix, which broke the hint, but > the conversion wasn't reverted. No, I was not guided by m-a hinter rules (assuming you mean the kind of hints that appear in the "action needed" section of e.g. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-test-case ) when I did the switch, so I am not aware that that hinting are broken. > This suggests that the hinter should gain another condition to never > issue arch:all+m-a:foreign conversion hints for librust-*-dev packages. > Do you agree? I don't see a need for such general rule for all librust-*-dev packages. E.g. librust-futures-timer-dev and librust-event-listener-dev has no dependencies so should be safe to distribute as arch-all and marked as m-a:foreign, right? Sure, there is a theoretical risk that some day in the future those packages grow dependencies that require changing that, but isn't that the case generally for m-a hinting? I guess it makes sense instead to have a lintian warning for packages marked m-a:foreign that all its dependencies are equally marked (or if that's unreasonably expensive then check only one level deep). That should help flag misuses of m-a:foreign including this one of mine (for most but not all the librust-*-dev packages that I maintain). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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