[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Facilitating Firefox+Rust Linux distro packaging

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 30/08/2016 à 16:30, Henri Sivonen a écrit :
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <s at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Le 30/08/2016 à 16:18, Henri Sivonen a écrit :
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
>>>> - By the time ESR requires rustc, it will require a very much more
>>>>   recent version of rustc than the one in Debian stable. Rustc currently
>>>>   only be compiled, at best, by the previous version. Which means either
>>>>   building every released version of rustc between the one shipped in
>>>>   Debian stable and the one required by ESR in sequence, or
>>>>   bootstrapping rustc from scratch. (and same again a year later, when
>>>>   the ESR version bumps)
>>> This would be neatly solved by Debian stable updating both Firefox and
>>> rustc every six weeks like Debian stable updates our competitor
>>> Chromium. (This would nicely also eliminate the complication of people
>>> who want to write Rust code having to know to avoid from main and to
>>> go to backports or to rustup.rs instead.)
>> If we are talking about Firefox ESR, my expectation from my release manager pov
>> is that we will use the same version of the rust compiler for the whole cycle.
>> I don't want rust changing versions impacting a product that we want to be stable...
>>
>> Once an ESR cycle ends (they are shorter than Debian stable), well, bumping the rust
>> dependency is going to be a pain because of the LLVM dependency...
>> This is the core of the issue...
> I meant non-ESR. If Debian shipped non-ESR Firefox + latest stable
> rustc every six weeks, there wouldn't be a rustc bump over many
> versions.
>
Debian won't ship Firefox in stable, only Firefox-esr.

Sylvestre