On 16/10/2024 20:33, Daniele Tricoli wrote:
> Hello Blair,
> first of all many thanks for your effort!
> 
> On 10/14/24 11:18, Blair Noctis wrote:
>> Hi Daniele,
>>
>> I've mostly finished the packaging of starship and built a deb out of it. 
>> Pretty
>> much shippable sans docs. However, I now strongly lean towards separating it
>> into its own packaging repo:
>>
>> - debcargo-conf builds get .orig.tar from crates.io, where starship is 
>> stripped
>> of docs, not a good thing when users might frequently consult them for
>> customization. Its docs are built with Vitepress which currently is not in
>> Debian, but we still get the .md sources. Otherwise we have to direct users 
>> to
>> online docs, e.g. https://starship.rs/
>> - Most of debcargo generated debian/ files are overridden anyway.
>> - I get to name the source package src:starship rather than 
>> src:rust-starship,
>> which is forced upon by debcargo. ;)
>>
>> What's your opinion on this?
>>
> 
> Your plan seems to me a good idea since it will make the package better for 
> our
> users.
> I think that it's fine to ship docs as .md files at the beginning instead of
> pointing to the online documentation.

Hi Daniele, glad you share the thought. I'll be making the change soon-ish. The
repository would be at https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/starship

> I'm almost done with my very busy period... I hope to restart contributing on
> the packaging side from the beginning of December.

Welcome back, take your time ;)

-- 
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis

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