[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Rust versions and the coming freeze for Stretch

[Ximin Luo]

Steve Klabnik:
> Hey all,
> 
> It has been recently pointed out to me[1] that the release of Rust
> 1.15 is on Feb 2, and the freeze for Stretch is Feb 5. But that it
> also appears that it takes ten days for something to migrate from
> testing. Is this a hard limit? Which version will end up being in
> Stretch?
> 
> This matters a lot because 1.15 is going to have one very significant
> feature, "macros 1.1", which lets a few major crates move from nightly
> to stable. I would hate to see it miss the release this narrowly, and
> then have issues later with regards to packaging applications on
> Debian.
> 
> - Steve
> 
> 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5m1vsk/librsvg_a_significant_package_on_many_linux/dc0oqnl/?context=1
> 

The version of rustc in Debian stable shouldn't be used for anything other than compiling rust packages in Debian stable. At the moment are no rust packages in Debian stable, so we're good on that front, i.e. no extra work needs to be done.

The major issue with rust in Debian at the moment is porting it to other architectures. Even after applying these pending PRs

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38650
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/38675

we stil have many test failures, see https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc and the other thread I posted a few days ago.

X

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