[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1068008: rustc: Please package rust 1.75 or higher

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 11:14:44AM -0400, Wesley Schwengle wrote:
> Package: rustc
> Version: 1.70.0+dfsg1-9
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: wesley at schwengle.net
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
> I was trying to build a rust package from source when I noticed they use
> traits. Async traits are supported as of 1.75. It would be beneficial to Debian that
> we can start developing rust with these traits.
> 
> Currently upstream sits at 1.77.x, it would be nice if we could get at least to
> 1.75 , but 1.77.x would be preferred.
> 
> https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-traits.html

Firefox will require 1.74 in version 125 (which will be released in a
few hours), and at least 1.76 in version 127.

Mike