Ben Westover

Wow, that's some cool timing! I just began work packaging `bkt` for Debian almost exactly when you made that comment.

The way Debian does rust packaging is kind of confusing. The source code of all the dependencies and their dependencies need to be packaged so they can be compiled at...

It would help if the clap dependency was 2 instead of 3; the person who's working on clap is having a hard time when it comes to upgrading our version...

> Hah that's a bummer, @tranzystorek-io swapped us to clap 3 in https://github.com/dimo414/bkt/pull/1. We can definitely remove the patch version from serde-json. That's good about serde-json. Can anything be done...

#debian-rust on OFTC is where all the discussion happens, and the work being done is on [this repo](https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf.git). There is one interesting thing happening, however. A package `rust-clap-2` was just...

Yeah, it is. I'd wait a bit before changing anything too much, though; It's possible that if you wait a little bit we'll have clap 3 in Debian. As mentioned...

Good news, clap 3 is now in Debian. This means I should be able to package bkt, and provided someone's there to sponsor the upload, get it into Debian!

It seems that the derive feature is missing from Debian's clap. I will investigate the cause for this. In the meantime, in case getting derive is a no-go, how important...

When they get back to me on what the deal is with derive, I'll see what our options are. There has to be a reason they disabled it.

Good news and bad news. The good news is that I have solved the clap_derive issue and it will be in Debian soon. The bad news is that there are...