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[PATCH] gnu: newsboat: Update to 2.20.1.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net>
Cc: 42477 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#42477] [PATCH] gnu: newsboat: Update to 2.20.1.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:26:39 +0300

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:19:24PM +0200, Jakub Kądziołka wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 02:59:25PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 01:49:59PM +0200, Jakub Kądziołka wrote:
> > > 
> > > Efraim,
> > > 
> > > I can't help but wonder - what's the motivation here for keeping the
> > > older version around? I think a comment above the definition would be
> > > nice.
> > 
> > The older one is the last version that builds without rust. I can add a
> > comment about why it's still there.
> 
> I gathered as much. I don't understand, though, why a rust-less version
> is valuable.
> 

Oh, that's because there are architectures where rust either doesn't
build (like i686-linux) or it builds incredibly slowly (aarch64).


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