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

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Brian Anderson <banderson at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> Not being deep into Debian, I'm confused about which releases are which, and
> the statement that cargo isn't going to make it into stretch. I've been
> assuming we were talking about the next stable Debian release, which looks
> to me to be stretch, and that jessie is the current stable release. Are we
> also talking about how to update Firefox in the current release, jessie,
> which has no Rust whatsoever, mid-cycle? When does support for jessie end?
>
Regular support for jessie (Debian 8) ends one year after the stretch
(Debian 9) release, which probably means some time in Q2 2018.

> Why isn't cargo going to make it into stretch, and how can you tell that? I
> see a status page [0] that seems to indicate cargo is in 'unstable' but not
> 'testing'. I guess since it's not in testing it's not going to be in the
> next stable release (stretch). That seems like a complete showstopper for
> Rust - Rust is not practically usable without Cargo. Do we have any options
> for getting cargo into stretch?
>
Barring new bugs being reported, cargo will probably be back in
"testing" (stretch) in a few days.

Cheers,
Julien