[21:48] <brson> chrisccoulson: ping
[21:49] <chrisccoulson> hi brson
[21:50] <brson> chrisccoulson: hey! i'm glad you are around
[21:51] <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
[21:52] <brson> chrisccoulson: how is it going?
[21:53] <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
[21:55] <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
[21:56] <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?
[21:57] <brson> ubuntu uses firefox esr or stable releases?
[21:58] <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
[22:03] <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?
[22:06] <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
[22:07] <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) :)
[22:22] <chrisccoulson> brson, thanks for the email