I meant, that email literally ask the fellow developer to either finish the Rust port or sunset the debian port in 6 months.
I am asking if the former option is a practical one
I meant, that email literally ask the fellow developer to either finish the Rust port or sunset the debian port in 6 months.
I am asking if the former option is a practical one
I believe m68k already has a working Rust compiler of sorts, though it's not part of the default Rust chain. I think shaping that fork into something that will let it run and compile like normal is feasible.
For other architectures currently unsupported by Rust, I doubt it'll happen. The CPU architectures themselves are long dead and often only used for industrial applications, so the probability of hobbyists getting their hands on them is pretty slim.
People still using these old architectures for anything but enthusiast hacking will probably not be using Debian Trixie, and if they do, they can probably find a workaround. It's not like the .deb format itself is changing, so old versions of apt and dpkg will keep working for quite a while.
In that case, the "6 months" deadline for non-m64k is just a false option.
I would consider that a passive-aggressive or an insult
I'm sure if any of the large corporations depending on legacy hardware would get together and pay people to make the necessary forks, 6 months would be feasible. Practically, they won't, though.
I see the deadline more as a "expect breakages in weird unofficial Debian downstreams that were never supported in the first place" or "ask your weird Debian downstream maintainer if this is going to cause problems now". It's not that Debian is banning unofficial downstreams or semi-proprietary forks, but it's not going to let itself be limited by them either.
And who knows, maybe there are weird Debian downstreams that I don't know of that do have a working Rust compiler. Projects like Raspbian are probably already set but Debian forks for specific boards may need to tweak a few compiler settings to make compilers emit the right instructions for their ARM/MIPS CPUs to work.
I only find the message passive-aggressive or insulting if you're of the opinion you're entitled to Debian never releasing software that doesn't work on the Commodore64.