Re: arm `rustdoc` Rust 1.85.0-only build error

Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:19:19 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 3, 2026, at 12:19 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM Fabian Grünbichler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I will check how the full diff for 1.85.1 looks like compared to just picking
>> the rustdoc fix referenced above, and then file a stable update request. AFAIU
>> either option works for you?
>
> Thanks for the reply and the details! Yeah, the timing was unfortunate :)
>
> Either works for us, in the sense that it is not a critical issue
> (i.e. it is just for generating the docs and just for arm32).
>
> Having said that, having the actual .1 release there is nicer in that
> we could consider raising the minimum version to that one (or perhaps
> at least print a warning if using .0).
>
> It also means we may get more focused testing and one less version
> around (e.g. currently I found this because I test our minimum, but
> generally I test the latest point versions).

Happy to report (with some delay ;)) that the next stable release of
Debian Trixie (13.7, planned for 12.09.2026) should contain an update
of rustc to 1.85.1, which got accepted into the proposed updates
suite today:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1778462/accepted-rustc-1851dfsg1-1deb13u1-source-into-proposed-updates/