Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:51:19 +0100
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Pierre-Marie Petit <pierremariepetit@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-debian@lists.postgresql.org, natureshadow@debian.org
Subject: Re: Packaging request: pglinter (PostgreSQL linting extension,
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Re: Pierre-Marie Petit
> Is building Rust/pgrx extensions in the PGDG build environment supported,
> given that cargo-pgrx is not packaged in Debian? Is there a preferred way
> to provide it?

Hi,

we started working on pgrx in spring, but then lost steam because rust
is complex and the tooling around packaging it is still somewhat in
flux (pgrx is a multi-crate workspace (there are lots of words with
weird meanings in this ecosystem) and debcargo doesn't understand that
yet). We still want to do that.

> Do you prefer the vendored crates shipped in the orig tarball, or a
> different approach?

I don't have an answer to that yet.

> Are there conventions I should follow first, such as debian/control.in with
> pg_buildext, a debian/pgversions file, or autopkgtest via pg_buildext
> installcheck?

That all sounds like a good idea, yes.

Christoph