On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 09:07:17PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:
> Peter convincingly argues (details in bug) that manual intervention is needed 
> for package "cargo":

> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:48:32 +0000 Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> 
> wrote:

> > This will require manual intervention to resolve, either through
> > cross-building or through building manually in a hacked-up build
> > environment.

> > I've certainly seen mention of rustc on #debian-devel recently,
> > so I think the people handling the time_t transition are already
> > aware of this.

> I'm wondering if the time_t people or the rust people could comment on this?  
> This build failure has a surprisingly (to me) long chain of casualties.  Is 
> this an easy thing to fix or is going to take weeks?

The quickest fix for this based on what we've done in Ubuntu is:

- unpack cargo and libstd-rust debs to the root via dpkg-deb -x
- use equivs to mock up packages by these names with no dependencies and
  install those
- bootstrap
- enjoy

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