Hi, Ximin Luo: > Who is using reprepro to archive Debian Rust packages? That's the > first time I've heard of this.
I'm happy to document one specific example, in the hope that it helps this discussion adopt a user-centric approach :) Tails is taking snapshots of the Debian archive 4 times a day, so that: - We can build our images reproducibly. - We have fine control over which packages get upgraded and when, which matters a lot for our stable branches and during our code freezes. We use reprepro to do this, because back when we implemented this piece of infrastructure, it was, by far, the most suitable tool for the job; it works impressively well for us, especially considering a few experienced Debian folks had predicted it would explode when fed so much data; I don't know if there's anything better nowadays but I'm not looking forward to reimplementing something that works really nicely already. This includes Rust packages and therefore, we're affected by this bug. Cheers, -- intrigeri
