On 10/28/24 13:26, Alex Bennée wrote:
At least rustup makes this reasonably easy for the rust bits. We do rely on the excellent Debian backports for getting QEMU quickly into testing images but I was assuming we would have trixie before --enable-rust became mandatory so I'm not too worried if bookworm is the outlier for old versions.
I agree that we can delay making Rust mandatory only after Bookworm has gone away. However, if we can make --enable-rust default as soon as possible, even in 10.0, then it would be easier if the same code (which is the Rust one) runs on all supported platforms.
All in all, the point of this series is to show that the workarounds for old rustc and bindgen are self-contained and easy to revert later when we can. If we agree about that, it seems worse to me if a couple releases single out Bookworm as the only non-Rust supported platform.
Paolo
