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[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:50:28AM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> 
> Sorry for bothering you,
> but to me it seems, that Rust is available in Debian:
> 
> > root at eb8440p:/home/andrew# ate show rustc
> > Package: rustc                           
> > Version: 1.14.0+dfsg1-3
> > State: not installed
> > Multi-Arch: foreign
> > Priority: extra
> > Section: rust
> > Maintainer: Rust Maintainers <pkg-rust-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Architecture: amd64
> > Uncompressed Size: 137 k
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libstd-rust-dev (= 1.14.0+dfsg1-3), gcc, libc-dev, libjs-jquery, binutils (>=
> >          2.26)
> > Recommends: rust-gdb | rust-lldb
> > Suggests: rust-doc
> > Description: Rust systems programming language
> >  Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language.  It visually resembles the C language family,
> >  but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details.  Its design is oriented toward concerns of
> >  "programming in the large", that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational
> >  - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency. 
> >  
> >  It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional
> >  styles.  Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.
> > Homepage: http://www.rust-lang.org/
> > 
> 
> Maybe the version-number of Rust is not new enough ?

$ apt-cache showsrc firefox | sed -n '/rustc/s/.*\(rustc[^,]*\),.*/\1/p'
rustc (>= 1.15.1)

> If so, then isn't it the case, that Firefox-ESR will also need the
> Rust-dependency sooner or later, since it is derived from Firefox-release ??

Yes, and when that happens, there will be a backport of rust, but it
won't be updated beyond what's needed for ESR, so release won't be
buildable with it even then.

Mike