Hello! I am a Debian Developer, though not likely to work on this as I haven't done a ton of rust binary packaging.
I did want to clear up one misconception that you might be having, though. The .deb versions shipped by upstream are great, but they're not really ever going to be useful for Debian. One of the side-effects of Debian's requirements around software freedom is an important principle: you should be able to build any package in Debian with only the things that are in Debian.
The problem with fresh isn't fresh itself -- packaging that isn't particularly difficult, though it does need some amount of care and attention. The problem is that fresh pulls in 732 different crates which all need to be packaged in Debian before fresh can be. Some of them are already in Debian, of course, but... you can imagine that the effort here is very much not insignificant.
Upstream doesn't have to deal with this problem, as they can simply statically build them into the executables. That's a violation of Debian policy, though, and isn't allowed for anything in the archive.
Hope that helps you understand why you may not get many bites at this offer, generous as it is!
hlieberman
This isn't going to happen.
Debian Trixie has already been released. The packages going into Trixie were frozen on April 25, 2025. If you want a new package in the official Debian repos, it needs to be packaged for Unstable, then promoted to Testing, then eventually Testing will be cut as a Stable release. The next Testing freeze will probably be sometime next year.
IMO this isn't part of your OS; it's cross-platform PC software. Install it using the bin its creators have provided. They have even built and are hosting a Deb for your linux distro (From inspection of the script)
the__alchemist
This feels like a good example of open source economics.A relatively small amount of money can create value for everyone who used Debian in the future.
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I did want to clear up one misconception that you might be having, though. The .deb versions shipped by upstream are great, but they're not really ever going to be useful for Debian. One of the side-effects of Debian's requirements around software freedom is an important principle: you should be able to build any package in Debian with only the things that are in Debian.
The problem with fresh isn't fresh itself -- packaging that isn't particularly difficult, though it does need some amount of care and attention. The problem is that fresh pulls in 732 different crates which all need to be packaged in Debian before fresh can be. Some of them are already in Debian, of course, but... you can imagine that the effort here is very much not insignificant.
Upstream doesn't have to deal with this problem, as they can simply statically build them into the executables. That's a violation of Debian policy, though, and isn't allowed for anything in the archive.
Hope that helps you understand why you may not get many bites at this offer, generous as it is!
hlieberman
Debian Trixie has already been released. The packages going into Trixie were frozen on April 25, 2025. If you want a new package in the official Debian repos, it needs to be packaged for Unstable, then promoted to Testing, then eventually Testing will be cut as a Stable release. The next Testing freeze will probably be sometime next year.
ahsgdfh
IMO this isn't part of your OS; it's cross-platform PC software. Install it using the bin its creators have provided. They have even built and are hosting a Deb for your linux distro (From inspection of the script)
the__alchemist
late_night_fix
atsaloli