Substrate Companion for rust 1.54 (#3807)

* Substrate Companion for rust 1.54

* CI: run with a staging CI image

* Revert "CI: run with a staging CI image"

This reverts commit f3b51da.

* CI: debug, again

* compilation fixes

* tabify

* update Substrate

* Update .gitlab-ci.yml

* CI: add ubuntu-based image with npm

Co-authored-by: Denis P <denis.pisarev@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <write@reusable.software>
Co-authored-by: thiolliere <gui.thiolliere@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: parity-processbot <>

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ build-adder-collator:
 #### stage:                        build
 
 check-transaction-versions:
-  image:                           node:15
+  # image must be ubuntu:20.04 based to match the linkers, this image has npm installed
+  image:                           paritytech/contracts-ci-linux:production
   stage:                           build
   <<:                              *rules-test
   <<:                              *docker-env