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

[Wesley Schwengle]

Hello all,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 06:32:04AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
>
> >
> > I am sorry to say that I don't expect us to be caught up with 1.75
> > (which is 5 trips through bin-NEW, one of them bigger than usual cause
> > of the merge, and probably 20-40h of rebasing and testing work on my
> > end) until at least the end of May :( I will make sure to include the
> > requirements of thunderbird/firefox if things get stuck in NEW for too
> > long.
> 
> And by end of May, we'll be close to the upstream release of rustc 1.79...
> 
> Is there anything we can do to make things better? Presumably, the
> src:cargo merge should help here, at least a little (because cargo being
> outdated has also been another source of recurring problems).

I second the "Is there anything we can do the make things better?". Are there
things we can do now already, that might speed up packaging rust to
1.77/1.78/1.79 besides waiting the t64 migration to be completed?

I can offer a day a week in help if needed.

Cheers,
Wesley