[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1000472: bullseye-pu: package rustc-mozilla/1.51.0+dfsg1-1~deb11u1

[Julien Cristau]

cc: rustc and firefox maintainers

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 03:20:45PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> In preparing the rustc 1.51 upload/backport (to support backports of the
> latest firefox-esr and thunderbird packages) it has been suggested that
> to avoid some issues associated with providing a significant new version
> of rustc in the rustc binary package (along with the associated library
> packages), that I prepare the 1.51 rustc package with a different name.
> Following the model of what was done for gcc, nasm, and nodejs, I was
> considering source package rustc-mozilla with a single binary package
> (also rustc-mozilla) to ensure that rdeps don't end up getting surprised
> by a new rustc.  Would this be considered acceptable for the bullseye
> and buster uploads of rustc 1.51?

2 things:
- I think we should pick 1.53 if possible, since that's what mozilla use
  for their esr91 binaries
- I don't think we need to rename the packages unless there's evidence
  of breakage that can't be easily fixed by either simple patches or
  removing the affected packages.  Renamed packages are acceptable but
  that seems like extra work and overhead that may not be necessary.

Cheers,
Julien