[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1030753: rust-all: need for rust 1.66.1

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2023-02-07 11:40:54 +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> rustc will be updated in experimental once 1.64 builds are done on all
> release architectures. first to 1.65, then to 1.66.1, then to 1.67 and
> so on.
> 
> bookworm will stay on 1.63 (besides any potential backports). note that
> firefox has its own rust toolchain in Debian (old*)stable:
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rustc-mozilla
> 
> for future reference - there is no need to file bugs to get rustc
> updated in unstable (or experimental, during freeze time) - the rust
> team will always pull in updates, but given the fast release schedule
> and the amount of architecture related issues each release requires to
> sort out, combined with the fact that updates have to happen one major
> version after another, we'll likely always lag behind a bit.

Any news? rustc >= 1.65 is now needed for Firefox 110, which includes
security fixes. So this is a bit urgent. See:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox

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