[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Updating rust for stable on i386 and arm64

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Aug  6, 2018 at 16:40:32 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> +Julien
> 
> 
> On 06/08/2018 11:21, Luca BRUNO wrote:
> > On Sunday, 5 August 2018 23:53:58 UTC Carl Dong wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> It seems that the rustc 1.24.1 package is in stable for x86, but not so for
> >> i386 and arm64, which has the much older 1.14.0.
> >> I was wondering if and when the package will be updated.
[...]
> >  
> >> I work on a project where we comply with debian-stable's rust distribution.
> > Unless you are packaging something for inclusion into Debian archives,
> > most of the times this is not what you should be aiming at.
> >
> > I don't know the specific details of your case, but if possible I'd suggest
> > to pin your desired toolchain via rustup and consider building in a
> > sealed/containerized environment.
> >

I'd echo what Luca said, the rustc/cargo packages we built are there
mostly for the sake of the upcoming firefox-esr update, I wouldn't
recommend basing anything else on them.

That said, they should end up in stable proper in the next point
release, currently scheduled for end of September.

Cheers,
Julien