Re: Needed for IceCat-102: rust-1.59 and rust-cbindgen-0.23

[John Kehayias]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 01:50 PM, John Kehayias wrote:

>
> I actually added rust-cbindgen-0.23 and 0.24 for another channel which needs 
> them for a
> similar purpose (I will not link the channel but I think you will know which 
> I mean). So I
> can submit the patches here, though I'm not familiar with all the ins and 
> outs of rust
> packaging I can at least take care of the basic updates and needed 
> dependencies.
>

Ah, a bunch of the packaged needed for this (cbindgen dependencies) are done in 
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57702> (unmatched-paren pointed out this patch 
series on #guix)

So after 57702 I think it might just be one or two packages, then cbindgen and 
we'll be set for an IceCat update.

> One slight wrinkle is that there is a bug for using version 0.24 for some 
> Firefox versions
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773259> Though that should be 
> fixed on
> newer ones, I'm not sure if that affects what will end up as IceCat:
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773259#c5>
>
> Normally I would just go with the latest cbindgen to have that for future 
> uses, but maybe
> we should just have 0.23 and 0.24? I have patches for both, just trying to 
> see what would
> be cleanest here.
>
> Finally, should these be based on staging or master? I hear we'll have 
> staging in master
> in the near future, let me know what will work best for these patches.
>
> John