Bug#930812: unblock: cargo/0.35.0-2
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:52:40PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Ximin,
>
> On 22-06-2019 11:57, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > Paul Gevers:
> >> On 21-06-2019 07:38, Ximin Luo wrote:
> >>> rustc 1.34.2 was unblocked in bug #930661 but the bug requestor forgot to file
> >>> the corresponding unblock request for cargo version 0.35.0-1. This is the
> >>> recommended version of cargo that goes with that rust version.
> >>
> >> How strong is this recommendation? It is too late in the freeze to take
> >> new upstream releases that aren't targeted fixes for important or higher
> >> bugs.
> >>
> >
> > Strong in that upstream does not officially support any other
> > combination and doesn't even talk about it as being possible. It's
> > only a quirk of the Debian packaging situation that sometimes the
> > versions are mismatched in unstable, because we de-synchronise rustc
> > vs cargo releases. Upstream always releases them in sync. I don't
> > think we should desync them for a stable release.
> And is the security team aware of this (in CC)? We are doing this to
> support Firefox security builds.
Rust 1.34 is needed for Firefox ESR68 and if Cargo 0.35 should complement that,
then let's do that.
Cheers,
Moritz
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