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[Simon Chopin <2115573@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On mer. 02 juil. 2025 15:46:36, Max Gilmour wrote:
> I like this idea. I discussed things with the team and the plan is to
> implement both the ability to update debian/control *and* stdout the
> expected XS-Vendored-Sources, each individually toggleable through CLI
> options.

I thought the plan was that the two modes would be either output
unconditionally on stdout or check the current value and output on
stderr if mismatch?

I'm not a huge fan of updating d/control directly, to be honest. How
about going through substvars instead? We'd write the file in
d/rust-vendor.substvars and check that d/source/options contains
-Tdebian/rust-vendor.substvars. That way we don't have that horrible
10km-long line in d/control anymore.

Since we keep the build-time check as well, we can hint people towards
the substvar thing then.

WDYT?

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Title:
  Have dh-cargo-vendored-sources update debian/control rather than just
  verify it

Status in dh-cargo package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It would be helpful for package update automation if dh-cargo-
  vendored-sources would be updated to directly update the XS-Vendored-
  Sources-Rust field in debian/control rather than only verifying that
  it is correct.

  If updating debian/control directly is undesirable, an alternative is
  to have a different command line option that directly outputs the
  expected XS-Vendored-Sources-Rust line. This would avoid users needing
  to parse stderr which feels awkward.

  My usecase is inclusion in a custom rule in debian/rules to update the
  vendoring of a package instead of a long list of instructions or
  commands. The custom rule would be run locally by the package
  contributor to prepare the updated package and not at buildtime. I
  believe every Rust package in main needs to have either a rule or
  script or documentation to do the vendoring, so I expect my requested
  feature here would be widely used.

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