On 9/14/20 1:14 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:53:57PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
>> On 9/14/20 12:18 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:15:27PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Josh Stone <jist...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/14/20 11:40 AM, Fabio Valentini wrote:
>>>>>> I agree. The only thing to keep in mind for semver-incompatible -devel
>>>>>> package updates is to check dependent packages, and either patch them
>>>>>> to use the new version (like in rawhide), or create compat packages if
>>>>>> necessary - so no broken dependencies are generated in the stable
>>>>>> branches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we going to recommend that these devel packages are still not really
>>>>> for end users? Otherwise, checking dependent packages is not sufficient.
>>>
>>> I don't think those packages make sense for users. As a user I would use 
>>> cargo
>>> and download packages from the web.
>>
>> I agree, but I think we still need to set that expectation.
> 
> rust packages are usually generated with rust2rpm. We could emit something in 
> the
> description template. This wouldn't help with existing packages (at least 
> until
> they are regenerated), but would help with new ones.

Ok, well the template already does make a statement like that:

  This package contains library source intended for building
  other packages which use "%{crate}" crate.

Maybe that's good enough.
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