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Conill: The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions

Conill: The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions

Posted Sep 17, 2021 17:45 UTC (Fri) by bluss (guest, #47454)
In reply to: Conill: The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions by josh
Parent article: Conill: The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions

> If you want to freeze one version of Rust for 2 years, freeze the software depending on it as well. And it's absolutely reasonable to expect software written in Rust to not add requirements on new features in bugfix/security releases.

There's another important special-case software (one of the true gems of the ecosystem!): Firefox, and it also needs frequent updates. For this reason, most distributions have already had to deal with changing Rust requirements.


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