[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#931003: Updating crates for Debian stable release

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi Sylvestre,

On 7/3/19 9:23 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 
> Le 30/06/2019 à 19:48, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
>> Le 27/06/2019 à 17:43, Ivo De Decker a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 06:03:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>>> I am on vacation for the next two weeks, please can someone else 
>>>> deal with the following:
>>>>
>>>> Due to Firefox we updated/unblocked rustc 1.34.2 for Debian Testing 
>>>> (and the next Debian Stable) release.
>>>
>>> For future release, a better way of handling this will be needed. The 
>>> fact
>>> that these updates break random other packages isn't really acceptable.
>> Agreed.
>>
>> I think we are in a good state now in unstable. We should have to 
>> accept the unblock.
>>
>> Sorry for the last minute stress.
>>
> Give where we are (super close to the release date), maybe we should not 
> do anything (unblock or removal).
> 
> This will be transparent for our users and won't be an actual issue. 
> removal might have some unexpected side effects
> with other rust-based packages.
> 
> I am happy to work to fix that in a dot release of buster.
> 
> Please let me know what you think!

I agree.

Given the timing and your commitment to find a solution via a point 
release, I'm willing to accept the situation as it is now.

Thanks,

Ivo