On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:17:35PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Hi, > > On 21/08/2019 07:45, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi Holger, hi Emilio, > > > > [dropping debian-devel list] > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:01:13PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 10:45:20PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Firefox 68 will be the next ESR release series. With the release of > >>> Firefox 68.2 > >>> on October 22nd, support for ESR 60 will cease. > >>> > >>> ESR 68 will require an updated Rust/Cargo toolchain and build > >>> dependencies not > >>> present in Stretch (nodejs 8, llvm-toolchain-7, cbindgen and maybe more). > >>> Stretch was already updated wrt Rust/Cargo for ESR 60, so there's at > >>> least no > >>> requirement to bootstrap stage0 builds this time. > >>> > >>> If we want to continue to have Firefox/Thunderbird supported in > >>> oldstable-security > >>> after October, someone needs to step up to take care of backports to a > >>> Stretch point > >>> release before October 22nd (or in case of poor timing, we can also > >>> release build > >>> dependency updates via stretch-security). > >> > >> There hasn't been any visible movement on this, so unless someone steps up > >> RSN, > >> there'll be a headsup about the EOL in the next ESR 60 DSA, so that people > >> have some advance warning. > > > > That would be really bad I guess both for users running stretch on > > workstations for a while (we are affected for instance at work) and > > for LTS as there were work so far by emilio to keep up firefox-esr and > > thunderbird as well updated in jessie LTS. > > We are at this point again. ESR 68 will be EOL on September 22nd, when 78.3 > comes out. We have some time still, but if we want FF and TB to keep being > supported, we'll have to do some toolchain backports as usual. > > Has someone started to look at this? > > I have taken a quick look and it looks like we need rustc 1.41 and cargo 0.31.
You mean cargo 0.42. Mike
