[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1042859: Bug#1042859: cargo: Please upgrade to at least 0.67.0

[Fabian Grünbichler]

> Eduard Bloch <edi at gmx.de> hat am 02.11.2023 09:54 CET geschrieben:
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> severity 1042859 important
> thanks
> 
> Hallo,
> * Mike Hommey [Wed, Aug 02 2023, 06:37:08AM]:
> 
> > 0.66 is the version of cargo that goes alongside rustc 1.65.
> > 0.67 is the version of cargo that goes alongside rustc 1.66.
> > Unstable and testing have rustc 1.66, so cargo should be updated to at
> > least version 0.67.
> 
> Dear Rust Maintainers,
> 
> the version of Cargo seriously needs an update. Because the word is
> moving and the old version performs increasingly bad.

the upgrade (to 0.70.1, since later versions require a lot of NEW processing first) is being prepared, but it takes a long time because it is very involved.

https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/issues/48
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/cargo/-/merge_requests/21

also related, and hopefully improving this in the future:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054658
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/rust/-/merge_requests/27