Re: Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2017-12-16 15:03 GMT+01:00 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> > 2017-12-16 1:28 GMT+01:00 Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>:
> > > People are *STRONGLY* encouraged to switch to 2.41.x as soon as
> > > possible.  Librsvg 2.41.x is ABI and API compatible with 2.40.x, so it
> > > is a drop-in replacement.  You only need a Rust toolchain to compile
> > > it.  If you or your distro can compile Firefox 57, you can probably
> > > compile librsvg 2.41 without problems.
> >
> > We'd love to switch in Debian, but
> >
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=unstable
> >
> > is effectively preventing us from doing that.
> > Looks like Firefox 57 is not coming to stable Debian release either
> > anytime soon:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox&suite=sid
>
> I am not sure I understand the status here. Are the failures because
> of missing arch support in llvm or because the arch teams just haven't
> gotten around to bootstrapping cargo and rust yet?

Our porters, from what I know, tried to bootstrap rust on various
architectures but run into multiple issues.
A few of them you can see at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=rustc

If you need more details, I can ask them. All I know that this
situation is basically unchanged for a long time already.
Probably doesn't help that rustc considers anything non i386/amd64 as
non-first tier supported.

Michael

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