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Implementation PR: #5200
Docs: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#minimal-versions
Issues: Z-minimal-versions Nightly: minimal-versions

Steps:

• Document best-practices (Expand "CI best practicies" section to the guide #5656)

Unresolved questions:

• do we want to "impose" this feature on the ecosystem? Currently, everything seems to work fine due to eager dependency resolution. Adding --minimal-versions has costs: one-time ecosystem transition cost, cost to run CI job for minimal versions, cost to actually update minimal versions. There's anecdotal evidence that wrong minimal versions actually are a problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ob598/rust_minimum_versions_semver_is_a_lie/e027mtz/.

• should we implement "--minimal-versions-for-me-but-not-my-dependencies" as well, to make the initial roll-out of this feature easier?

Stabilization TODO:

• change -Z minimal-versions to just --minimal-versions and add it alongside --frozen/locked,
• this will require community-wide effort to make the things work, so a special announcement should be prepared. Announcement should describe the links problem and solution.