[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1042859: Bug#1042859: cargo: Please upgrade to at least 0.67.0

[Eduard Bloch]

Hallo,
* Fabian Grünbichler [Fri, Nov 03 2023, 12:32:50PM]:

> > the version of Cargo seriously needs an update. Because the word is
> > moving and the old version performs increasingly bad.
>
> the upgrade (to 0.70.1, since later versions require a lot of NEW processing first) is being prepared, but it takes a long time because it is very involved.
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/issues/48
> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/cargo/-/merge_requests/21
>
> also related, and hopefully improving this in the future:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054658
> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/rust/-/merge_requests/27

Okay, I get the idea. That said, I find it quite strange that you want
to include a Python dependency in order to run a central Rust tool.

Would you like me to rewrite the proposed cargo wrapper script into a
native Rust app? That's a serious offer, I have IMHO sufficient Python
and Rust experience, recently working on something partly similar
(https://gitlab.com/setecastronomy/wec ).

(Not sure about bootstrapping, though. Is rustc available while our
source package is being built?)

Best Regards,
Eduard.

--
<Karat3> wie führt man noch mal ein shellscript aus?
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