Re: ClamAV needs newer rust

On 7/20/26 17:17, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026, at 11:08 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been preparing clamav upload for stable and noticed that one of its
>> rust bits requires rustc 1.87.0. There was once rust-web but this is
>> gone now.
>> I could try to downgrade it but there was a bug against an earlier
>> version where it failed to read (some) .tiff files and fix was a newer
>> rust component for it. Wouldn't be surprised if something similar did
>> happen for jpeg, too (the package asking for newer rustc is zune-jpeg).
>>
>> The NEWS file for 1.4.4 mentiones rustc 1.87 as the minimum.
>>
>> I guess the only way forward is via -bpo?
> 
> I think it is just a matter of time before rustc-web has to be
> reintroduced for Trixie (via chromium/firefox-esr) - AFAIK Andres (CCed)
> is already working on preparing it(s prerequisites).

I'm hoping Emilio will handle rustc-web. I'm handling the 
llvm-toolchain-22 backport (which newer rust depends upon), but I keep 
hitting issues. I'm hoping to get that in before the next chromium early 
release in a week, though.