Hi all, I agree that rustup should be in Debian. Achieving this is currently blocked on either of these two issues:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/835 OR - https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/-/merge_requests/22 If you want to help, achieving either of these would help to unblock progress. X Ralph Giles: > I would also like to start off with a Debian-packaged rustup rather > than having to install it from upstream. > > It's been discussed before, but I think no one was pursuaded to start > maintaining a package. IIRC one issue was that rustup likes to update > itself. You'd need to check how difficult it would be to have the > system rustup always just install any updates in the user's .cargo > subtree, without trying to write to the root filesytem. The user's > local version would then take precedence through the normal PATH > setting. > > I think there was also some concern about support over the lifetime of > a debian release, should upstream change their API sufficiently to stop > the packaged version working. > > -r > > On Sat, 2020-03-28 at 14:04 +0100, Martin Monperrus wrote: >> Package: rustc >> Version: 1.40.0+dfsg1-5 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Awesome Rust Debian Maintainers, >> >> I notice that rustup is not packaged for Debian. One option is to go >> through >> snap (https://snapcraft.io/install/rustup/debian) but native packages >> are >> preferable. >> >> Since rustup is used by many projects, it would be great to have it >> natively on >> Debian: >> >> apt-get install rustup >> >> What do you think? >> >> Best regards, >> >> --Martin >> >> >> >> >> >> -- System Information: >> Debian Release: bullseye/sid >> APT prefers unstable >> APT policy: (500, 'unstable') >> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >> Foreign Architectures: i386 >> >> Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, >> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE >> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), >> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >> LSM: AppArmor: enabled >> >> Versions of packages rustc depends on: >> ii binutils 2.34-5 >> ii gcc 4:9.2.1-3.1 >> ii libc6 2.30-2 >> ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.30-2 >> ii libgcc-s1 [libgcc1] 10-20200324-1 >> ii libgcc1 1:10-20200324-1 >> ii libllvm9 1:9.0.1-10 >> ii libstd-rust-dev 1.40.0+dfsg1-5 >> ii libstdc++6 10-20200324-1 >> >> Versions of packages rustc recommends: >> ii cargo 0.40.0-3 >> ii rust-gdb 1.40.0+dfsg1-5 >> >> Versions of packages rustc suggests: >> pn lld-9 <none> >> pn rust-doc <none> >> pn rust-src <none> >> >> -- no debconf information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pkg-rust-maintainers mailing list >> pkg-rust-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net >> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-rust-maintainers -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
