Re: Packages for pg_doorman

For such a new piece of infrastructure is there really a compelling reason
to support distributions older than Debian bookworm (released 3 years ago)?
Do you have any current use-cases for something older?

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM Smolkin Grigory <smallkeen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > Can we use cargo vendor?
> > https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-vendor.html
> >My understanding is that Debian policy >does not permit downloading
> >during the build [0].
>
> >Would it be acceptable to install the compiler from https://rustup.rs/
> during package building?
> >> My understanding is that Debian policy does not permit downloading
> during the build [0].
>
> Ok, I suppose we have to live with distribution compiler. Though, it may
> make some old systems without rust 1.70.0 unsupportable.
>
> >> According to this post [1] on the debian-rust mailing list, "vendoring
> should be avoided unless there is a very good reason not to".
> >> The Debian Rust packaging team has a pretty comprehensive guide [2] and
> it looks like they have tooling to help assist with the packaging process.
>
> I think we have a very good reason here - a lot of distributions of
> different versions with different libversions. Even making it just to be
> "compilable" would require tremendous effort, supporting it will be
> unmanageable.
>
> I see no good reason not to use vendoring in case of "multiple
> distribution"-build process.
> 1. It's a tarboll artifact, released with main project, under the same
> release tag.
> 2. It is reproducible and has public hash, so it can be verified.
> 3. It allows local build, nothing has to be downloaded.
> 4. Consistent binary behavior across multiple distributions.
>

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Brian Cosgrove