Re: [PATCH 1/7] xdiff: introduce rust

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2025, 22:39 UTC
Message-ID: <aHl7pRs9pgUTXKQk@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <aHlrg7pbFqi2qNWH@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 09:30:43PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> In addition, as I mentioned downthread, because our intention is to
> support the Debian stable toolchain for a year after the new stable
> release, unless we are exceptionally careful about dependencies, we may
> end up with a case where distros need to use older dependencies patched
> for security but other users may want to update the versions to newer
> dependencies with security fixes but that do not work on our pinned Rust
> version.

...or Debian users who have an older version of the toolchain installed and got an unfriendly "cannot parse 'version = 4'" error when trying to build with this patch series applied locally ;-).

Thanks, Taylor

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