Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor

[Timothy N. Gaskell]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:31:42 +0200
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> chiming here with my Debian maintainer hat. We didn't yet really start
> packaging 4.21 but I have to admit xfwl4 beeing in Rust does worry be
> a bit from a maintainer perspective

Hi Yves-Alexis,

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.

Regards,
Timothy Gaskell