[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#955208: rustup was published to crates.io; I'd be great to have it packaged in Debian

Fabian Grünbichler debian at fabian.gruenbichler.email
Wed Dec 7 19:31:54 GMT 2022


> Hello there,
> 
> two years ago, Ximin stated that rustup cannot enter Debian until either
> 
> - https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/835 OR
> - https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/-/merge_requests/22
> 
> is fixed. The thing is that the first issue was closed in between. Is
> there any hope that we could get rustup as a package, please?

Unfortunately, that issue was just closed as WONTFIX, not because rustup
is actually published on crates.io now ;)

> My motivation is that I want to hack on a project that won't compile
> if rustup is not installed, and I don't like installing anything out
> of dpkg.

There are still some efforts to package it, but I am not sure whether
they will be done in time for the bookworm freeze.

see

https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/-/issues/34
https://crates.io/crates/rustup-private-download



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