All of Debian's patches for rustc: bugfixes, tweaks for the Debian environment, and even some reproducibility improvements.
https://sources.debian.org/patches/rustc/1.40.0+dfsg1-5/
Many have a separate comment, which is really helpful.
miniblog.
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I'm considering switching my personal servers (on Digital Ocean) from Ubuntu to Debian. I essentially just need something running Docker for most of my projects.
Debian seems to require upgrading less often. Any opinions?
I'm never sure what version of Rust to target for my projects.
For difftastic I pinned to rust 1.57 and I haven't needed to bump it so far.
Debian stable is still on 1.48 though!
Google changing Goobuntu to rolling release based on Debian testing, rather than big-bang releases every two years based on an LTS: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-google-got-to-rolling-linux-releases-for-desktops