Re: Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> 2017-12-16 1:28 GMT+01:00 Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>:
> > People are *STRONGLY* encouraged to switch to 2.41.x as soon as
> > possible.  Librsvg 2.41.x is ABI and API compatible with 2.40.x, so it
> > is a drop-in replacement.  You only need a Rust toolchain to compile
> > it.  If you or your distro can compile Firefox 57, you can probably
> > compile librsvg 2.41 without problems.
>
> We'd love to switch in Debian, but
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=unstable
>
> is effectively preventing us from doing that.
> Looks like Firefox 57 is not coming to stable Debian release either
> anytime soon:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox&suite=sid

I am not sure I understand the status here. Are the failures because
of missing arch support in llvm or because the arch teams just haven't
gotten around to bootstrapping cargo and rust yet?

Cheers,
Nirbheek