> On 8 Feb 2021, at 11:19, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going > to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to > provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. > > Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem, > and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will > probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not > supported by Rust. >
It seems that there was no mention of this in release notes or the changelog - neither to warn packagers or consult with them for their views on this, which would’ve been the best place to do so. > [snip] > > Furthermore, the Gentoo Rust packages are missing support > for the following platforms, apparently supported upstream: > - mips (exp) > - ppc (32) (stable) > - sparc (stable) > - s390x (exp) > - riscv (stable) We also need to add support for armv4/armv5. > > Apparently it's non-trivial to bootstrap Rust on these platforms, > so it's unclear when Gentoo is going to start providing Rust on them. > > [snip] Filed a Gentoo bug too: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769482. > [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html > [2] https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771 > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > >
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