From 217d9223a5aa75daf9f286fd1fc06dae379b5dbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:03:05 +0200 Subject: Adding debian version 1.64.0+dfsg1-1. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- debian/NEWS | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/NEWS (limited to 'debian/NEWS') diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 000000000..067259d3d --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +rustc (1.20.0+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=medium + + Starting from version 1.20.0+dfsg1-1 (i.e. the previous version) the Debian + packages of rustc no longer fail their build if any tests fail. In other + words, some tests might have failed when building this and future versions of + the package. This is due to lack of maintainer time to investigate failures. + + Many previous test failures were reported to upstream and did not receive a + timely response, suggesting the failures were not important. I was then + forced to patch out the test to make the build proceed, so several tests were + being ignored in practise anyway. + + This brings the Debian package in line with the Fedora package which also + ignores all test failures. (Many other distributions don't run tests at all.) + + If you think that the Debian rustc package is miscompiling your program in a + way that the upstream distributed compiler doesn't, you may check the test + failures here: + + https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc + + If you can identify a relevant test failure as well as the patches needed to + fix it (either to rustc or LLVM), this will speed up the processing of any + bug reports on the Debian side. + + We will also examine these failures ourselves on a best-effort basis and + attempt to fix the more serious-looking ones. + + -- Ximin Luo Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:02:23 +0200 -- cgit v1.2.3