[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#981153: Bug#981153: cargo: Please package new upstream (blocks Firefox 85)

[Jonathan Goble]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:19:29 +0100 Fabian
=?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=FCnbichler?= <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:
> we'd need to act really fast to pull this off, and likely the only
> viable solution would be to update and upload src:rust-cargo and
> everything that's needed there to experimental (to avoid interfering
> with the rest of src:rust-* and the freeze), then update src:cargo
> (still benefiting from the work that went into experimental), and then
> post-full-freeze upload the things from experimental to unstable and
> update debcargo..

Are there any plans to do this soon? I am a testing user that obtains
the latest firefox from sid because the ESR version is unusable for my
needs. I'm now stuck on Firefox 84 until this gets resolved, which is
annoying and insecure.

I really, really do not want to be forced to uninstall the deb package
and install the binaries from the Firefox website. I've tried that in
the past and have been repeatedly and severely burned by unexpected
automatic updates. Regardless of how many times I disabled that in the
settings, I continued to get updates forced on me when I'm in the
middle of something with the firefox.com version. The entire reason I
use the deb from sid is because it totally and completely disables
that behavior and gives me full control over when to perform an
update.