[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#796256: Bug#796256: Bug#796256: Please consider packaging a Rust version that allows #![feature(...)]

[Ximin Luo]

On 21/08/15 10:33, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> Personally, I'm reluctant to break the release-channels experiment so close
>> to the 1.0 release.  We may well declare it failed and do something
>> different in future, but right now I think Debian has an important role to
>> play in demonstrating what the "stable" Rust world looks like and providing
>> pressure for upstreams to avoid unstable features.
> 
> I don't think this would be breaking release-channels.  Rather, this
> would be demonstrating the value of that model.  Debian unstable, and
> thus testing and eventually stable, would get stable Rust releases.
> Debian experimental would get Rust builds with experimental features
> turned on.  Software uploaded to Debian unstable, for instance, would
> still have to build with stable Rust.
> 

I'm trying this now, going to upload to mentors.debian.net if I succeed. Wish me luck!

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