[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1109862: Bug#1109862: rustc - please depend on gcc-for-host, binutils-for-host

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On July 25, 2025 11:15:45 AM GMT+02:00, Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
>Package: rustc
>Version: 1.85.0+dfsg3-1
>Severity: normal
>X-Debbugs-Cc: waldi at debian.org
>
>rustc currently depends on gcc and binutils.  This means it wants the
>native compiler and will break if a cross compiler for this arch is
>already installed.
>
>Please change that to gcc-for-host and binutils-for-host.
>
>As rustc is multi architecture, isn't this dependency kind of wrong?

It's there for historical reasons, and I plan to revamp that
part of the packaging for Forky!