[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1115330: librust-rust-apt-dev: Please update to version 0.8.0

[Jarl Gullberg]

Package: librust-rust-apt-dev
Version: 0.7.0-6
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The rust-apt crate released version 0.8.0 in July 2025. This version has
a number of fixes and useful features that 0.7.0 does not have;
specifically, it implements the Acquire part of the API allowing for
package downloads without installation.

Additionally, version 0.7.0 has some broken features such as .uris() on
the Version struct which uses a lifetime antipattern, making it (and
others) either cumbersome or near-impossible to use.

If an update is possible, I would also very much like to see it released
via trixie-backports so that it can be utilized selectively on stable
installations.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.43+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages librust-rust-apt-dev depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg-dev                                                   3.0.3
ii  librust-cxx-build-dev [librust-cxx-build-1+default-dev]          1.0.141-1
ii  librust-cxx-dev [librust-cxx-1+default-dev]                      1.0.141-1
ii  librust-terminal-size-dev [librust-terminal-size-0+default-dev]  0.4.1-2

librust-rust-apt-dev recommends no packages.

librust-rust-apt-dev suggests no packages.

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