Debian’s APT package manager will have a “hard requirement” on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.
How does one comment from a dev with virtual no follow up amounts to being news? Is there an official stance by the dev team?
This is the official stance.
But no it’s not really news, since Debian already has a hard dependency on rust, as noted in the article.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to drop some CPU architectures that haven’t been relevant in the last 20 years. It seems to me there are a lot of new people eager to contribute who have no interest in touching C any more than necessary, and a project that can no longer attract new contributors will sooner or later die.
Honestly I wonder when gccrs will become viable as a compiler because that could bring support for some of the more niche CPUs
Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils, this smacks of Wayland-ism.
Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.
Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils
Is there any reason to think they won’t?
Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.
Aren’t you just an anti-wayland anti-systemd weirdo? Not that there is anything wrong with using what you want, but pretending they aren’t much needed improvements in the long run is ridiculous
Yup, guess I am :) … for now.
I have tried Wayland a few times over the past few years, probably bad luck on my part with what systems/chipsets I’ve had every time, that it hasn’t been a great experience. But I have read it’s getting there, so I expect someday I’ll just switch and not really notice the difference there.
As for systemd… yeah I’ll be “a wierdo” for the foreseeable future I suppose. Good ol’ sysV init scripts, or openrc, have always, and still do, work well enough for me.
RIIR projects usually don’t have feature parity.
