26.08.2024 08:20, Alexander Wirt wrote:
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In general - speaking also as an ftpmaster - I am a bit more relaxed. Rust is
one
of those statically compiled languages. That means that uploads to backports
have a much
lower chance to break anything in stable. Therefore I would be fine with those
backports.
However, you should ensure that the rust team is also fine with those uploads
and don't see any
problems with such a backport.
The problem with rust crates backports is different, -
it is not about breaking existing stuff in stable.
The problem is that for most even trivial stuff, you need to backport
a large number of dependencies, and ensure other already backported
crates continue working. Backporting a single crate is already complex,
and backporting a whole lot, and updating their deps is something
entirely different. Hopefully you don't hit something on this way
which requires a more recent compiler.
I consider rust to be basically un-back-portable.
/mjt
