| brson | chrisccoulson: ping | 21:48 |
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| chrisccoulson | hi brson | 21:49 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: hey! i'm glad you are around | 21:50 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: i work on the rust team, and try to help firefox packagers prepare for the rust transition | 21:51 |
| brson | i only realized yesterday that i've never talked to you directly | 21:51 |
| brson | and my information about how ubuntu packagis fx is wrong | 21:51 |
| brson | for context yesterday mozilla committed a patch to require rust https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284816 | 21:51 |
| chrisccoulson | oh, heh, we've just been discussing rust internally | 21:51 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: how is it going? | 21:52 |
| chrisccoulson | Basically, the situation today is that the development release of ubuntu has rust 1.14 from debian. The foundations team are going to backport that to other ubuntu releases | 21:53 |
| brson | ok. you should know that if 1.14 can build firefox today, it will not be for long | 21:55 |
| brson | firefox will likely keep rust upgraded, and that is tough for distros | 21:55 |
| chrisccoulson | Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that | 21:55 |
| brson | here's my summary of debian's situation from nov https://gist.github.com/brson/7f626515bfe135813ecc6b9a0c3f0273 | 21:55 |
| brson | afaik because of their policy issues there isn't a clear path forward yet, some policy will need an exception | 21:56 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: how long do you need to support firefox in which current releases? | 21:56 |
| brson | ubuntu uses firefox esr or stable releases? | 21:57 |
| chrisccoulson | we follow the normal releases | 21:58 |
| brson | ok | 21:58 |
| chrisccoulson | the support is 5 years for ubuntu LTS releases. The current releases are on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases | 21:58 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: since there are currently 5 lts releases does that mean that, at the first firefox release that requires rust (possibly april), you will be on the hook for 5 backports of Rust? | 22:03 |
| brson | chrisccoulson: I'm going to send you an email so you have my contact info. Is there anything you need from me right now, or that I can pass along? | 22:03 |
| chrisccoulson | There's currently 4 supported releases, although one of these becomes EOL in April. But there's also a non-LTS release in April | 22:06 |
| chrisccoulson | I don't think there's anything I need right now (it's quite late anyway, and I'm about to go and grab some beer) :) | 22:07 |
| chrisccoulson | brson, thanks for the email | 22:22 |
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