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

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 02:28:51PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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

rustc 1.64 is now built for all (relevant) archs in experimental, so
1.65.0 will follow suite some time this week. there are currently no
plans to upload it to unstable during freeze though.