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> On 8 Feb 2021, at 11:19, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> FYI the developers of dev-python/cryptography decided that Rust is going |
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> to be mandatory for 1.5+ versions. It's unlikely that they're going to |
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> provide LTS support or security fixes for the old versions. |
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> Since cryptography is a very important package in the Python ecosystem, |
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> and it is an indirect dependency of Portage, this means that we will |
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> probably have to entirely drop support for architectures that are not |
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> supported by Rust. |
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It seems that there was no mention of this in release notes or the changelog - |
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neither to warn packagers or consult with them for their views on this, which would’ve |
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been the best place to do so. |
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> [snip] |
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> Furthermore, the Gentoo Rust packages are missing support |
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> for the following platforms, apparently supported upstream: |
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> - mips (exp) |
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> - ppc (32) (stable) |
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> - sparc (stable) |
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> - s390x (exp) |
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> - riscv (stable) |
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We also need to add support for armv4/armv5. |
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> Apparently it's non-trivial to bootstrap Rust on these platforms, |
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> so it's unclear when Gentoo is going to start providing Rust on them. |
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> [snip] |
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Filed a Gentoo bug too: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769482. |
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> [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html |
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> [2] https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771 |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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