[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#933016: Bug#933016: rustc: status of nightly toolchains

[Angus Lees]

I think you are trying to compile a project that requires in-development
features of the Rust compiler.  I think you also want to do that without
getting involved in the Rust upstream development process and tools (like
rustup).  I don't think there is a way to resolve those two conflicting
goals to anyone's satisfaction.

I think the long-term solution for your project is to move to using only
stable Rust features (which would then be supported by the rustc Debian
packages).

(The current Debian/Rust choice is to only package stable toolchain
releases, as we see that as our role (as a distro) within the Rust
ecosystem.  If you want to develop rustc itself, or work with
unreleased/unstable features, then you will need to be prepared to join the
Rust community and their recommended tools (probably rustup, not apt-get).)

 - Gus

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 05:09, Dmitry Bogatov <KAction at debian.org> wrote:

>
> Source: rustc
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> are there any plans to add into Debian version of Rust compiler, that
> supports #![feature]?
>
> Currently, to compile project I am interested in, I am forced to use
> `curl | sh` installation, which is quite creepy.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers buildd-unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
> 'testing'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
> set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
> to en_US.utf8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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-- 
 - Gus
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