Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> writes: > I'm against packaging unstable stuff. We would be packaging a moving target > where everything breaks every day. Let's not. > > There's a reason there are stable releases (of anything): there's (supposed > to be) a (social) guarantee that the API doesn't change in incompatible ways. > > If a library doesn't work in a stable release, upstream has to get it to > work. Simple as that. > Otherwise it just shouldn't be packaged. People can still use cargo to > install it so we aren't preventing anyone from using it. > > That said, there could be a rustc-devel package (only for rustc). Other > packages, people should be on their own. > > Please, let's not make unstable stable by decree. If anything, upstream > should just release more stuff as stable (if it's stable) :P >
I agree. I think it's not a solution we should try unless we haven't tried every possible solution out there. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 PGP keys and more: https://n0is.noblogs.org/ http://ng0.chaosnet.org
