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

[Fabian Grünbichler]

> Eduard Bloch <edi at gmx.de> hat am 03.11.2023 13:46 CET geschrieben:
> 
>  
> 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 ).


I am not sure what you are referring to, but the fact that some helper/wrapper scripts are written in python is in no way related to what is making updates cumbersome at the moment.

and we most definitely don't want to rewrite the cargo wrapper in rust, that would serve no purpose at all.

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

of course rustc is required to build both rustc and cargo, since both are written in rust. note that rustc itself also has a build-dependency on python anyway, since it's (internal) bootstrapping/build tool is written in python (and rust).