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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 05/01/2017 à 22:21, Steve Klabnik a écrit :
>> 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.
> Ah right, since new packages would end up going in stretch. I still
> feel like people are going to use this to do work with Rust, rather
> than just for building packages, but we'll see. I do agree that this
> is less bad than I initially thought, though.
>
>> The major issue with rust in Debian at the moment is porting it to other architectures.
> Yes, I've been watching the threads closely. We (upstream) certainly
> want to improve the situation with supporting a broader set of
> architectures, but it's a lot of work, and we're in the middle of
> re-doing our own CI at the moment... but that's going to take some
> time.
>
> I am not sure what the right course of action is here, but we should
> probably discuss it on one of those threads, rather than this one.
>
> Back ontopic: so this means that stretch will have 1.14 for sure,
> then? Well, assuming that your build gets out. But 1.15 isn't going to
> happen?
>
if this is just a few days, we can ask for an exception to the debian
release team...