The newer LLVM doesn’t have to be the default, so it would break nothing. It would be packaged just to be a build dependency of Rust (and whatever else may later require such a version). So, the question remains… why would a distro accept Rust (a brand new package) but not a newer LLVM (an update/backport)?
As the Debian & Ubuntu maintainer of the LLVM toolchain and working on the rust packaging with Luca, I don’t think you should bother to maintain rust with too many version of LLVM. Doing it for a single release is already an hard task by itself. Having 3.6 (the next major upstream release) would be a first good step. Distro interested to backport Rust will also backport the LLVM version.
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