[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rustc/cargo in stretch

[Luca BRUNO]

On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 12:09:11 PM UTC Julien Cristau wrote:

> > So I think we should remove both packages from stretch and avoid painting
> > ourselves into a corner.  Thoughts?

Can you elaborate a bit more on the "paint ourself in a corner"?

From my side, I can contribute these datapoints:
* there are no rdeps on purpose, as we decided to postpone policy + dh-cargo +   
  libs/apps after stretch release
* rustc and cargo are now tied in self-bootstrapping and crossed-bootstrapping
  loops, so having at least some (albeit old) versions of both in a release 
  may help
* those packages are mostly intended as stepstones to a full ecosystems of 
  libs/apps and to make backports slightly easier, users are basically 
  expected to use rustup anyway (as the language is still evolving)
* firefox security updates story is more complex than I currently grok,
  but it may involve shipping a fresh cargo+rustc+llvm toolchain either ways

Ciao, Luca

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