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

[Ximin Luo]

Steve Klabnik:
> Incidentally, looks as if the beta is planning to be ready as of
> Friday: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-1-15-release-status/4590
> 

FYI a Feb 2 release date would not be enough to have 1.15 get into Debian stable by the normal process. The Feb 5 date is when Debian testing is frozen. At the moment, packages take 10 days to migrate from Debian unstable to Debian testing. So 1.15 would have to be in Debian on January 25 for the normal process to work.

As Sylvestre mentioned it is possible to argue for an exception, but the release managers normally only accept arguments based on grounds that Debian would care about for release purposes. For example, porting to other official architectures. [1] A new upstream version is not normally a "good enough" reason.

Especially if 1.15 is the version where the Makefiles are dropped and we get a new circular hard-dependency on cargo, this would make future porting efforts much harder and I'd prefer to try porting with 1.14.

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[1] https://www.debian.org/ports/

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