I can really appreciate the appeal of a "do nothing today" solution but
I'm worried about how much work, and unknown surprises, await us on our
*first* update in the future.
At some point, we'll have a security issue in a rust program that can
only be solved in coordination with a toolchain update
Alright, the consensus seems to be for option (2). Less work for me :-).
As for future SRUs for newer versions, thunderbird seems regularly
upgraded in stable releases and will need regular rustc bumps.
Closing this as Invalid, feel free to correct the status if that's not
the right one.
** Chan
I am broadly uncomfortable with this as an FFe because it sounds like
the direction is still being settled out and the rationale is not clear
for jammy given that firefox does not appear to need in-archive updates
of rustc anymore. Further, I don't think whether or not you used
versioned source pa
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Solution 1) feels a bit cleaner because there is no special casing of
one version but at the same time it's not likely that we will be
changing -defaults in a SRU so option 2) is less work and equivalent.
Package that want to use a newer serie will have to target it
specifically
+1 from me for opt
Note that in jammy, with bug #1962021 firefox isn't tied to rustc/cargo
any longer, as it becomes a simple wrapper that installs the snap (and
the snap itself uses upstream builds of rustc and cargo).
Thunderbird still depends on rustc and cargo in the archive.
In any case, both options look vali
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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