Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports (www.theregister.com)

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Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.

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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 10 months ago

I wonder if Gentoo is going to become the last option standing for some of these obsolete arches. Of course, it may only be matter of time before Portage won't work on wd40 arches either, given the increased uptake of Rust in Python packages.

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