Re: Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor

I should already be on the mailing list, and I've added the IRC to my
auto-connect list. I'm not sure if I'll be useful, but I'm deep enough down
both the Debian and Xfce rabbit holes that I want to try.

Thanks,
Timothy


On Wed, 12 Aug 2026, 4:27 am Yves-Alexis Perez, <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, 2026-08-11 at 21:46 -0500, Timothy N. Gaskell wrote:
> > Hi Yves-Alexis,
>
> Hi Timothy (and sorry for other people which might not be interested in
> Debian
> internals :)
> >
> > How soon are you planning to get to work on packaging xfwl4
> > dependencies? I'm an beginning student of Debian packaging
> > (with a grand total of one package adopted in testing) and have also
> > been enjoying beta-testing xfwl4, so this challenge is downright
> > attractive to me. I don't have much time to offer, but if an extra
> > person looking at this "some weekend if I get around to it" would be at
> > all helpful to you, I'd be happy to either email you proposed debian/*
> > files for some of the new dependencies or upload something to
> > mentors.debian.net.
>
> Thanks for the offer ! Please join the #debian-xfce (and maybe
> #debian-rust)
> on OFTC IRC network, and the Debian Xfce mailing list
> [email protected] where the coordination is likely to be done
>
> I'm not sure how we'll advance on this but it's likely we'll have some
> heavy
> coordinations with the Debian rust team because they're apparently
> maintaining
> a lot of packages in their 'monorepo' (also see https://rust-
> team.pages.debian.net/book/ ).
>
> Regards,
> - --
> Yves-Alexis
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