On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 05:16:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into > > APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the > > Rust compiler and standard library, and the Sequoia ecosystem. > > > > In particular, our code to parse .deb, .ar, .tar, and the > > HTTP signature verification code would strongly benefit > > from memory safe languages and a stronger approach to > > unit testing. > > > > If you maintain a port without a working Rust toolchain, > > please ensure it has one within the next 6 months, or > > sunset the port. > > > > It's important for the project as whole to be able to > > move forward and rely on modern tools and technologies > > and not be held back by trying to shoehorn modern software > > on retro computing devices. > > Be careful. Rust does not support some platforms well.[0] ANything > that is not Tier 1 is not guaranteed to actually work. And > architectures like m68k and powerpc are Tier 3. > > [0] <https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/rustc/platform-support.html>.
Thank you for your message. Rust is already a hard requirement on all Debian release architectures and ports except for alpha, hppa, m68k, and sh4 (which do not provide sqv). -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
