Introduction

This is the all-in-one "book" for the Debian Rust Team.

The team

What the Debian Rust Team does:

• Package the Rust compiler (rustc) and the cargo package manager
• Package various programs and libraries distributed on crates.io, the official Rust package registry
• Coordinate with and help other teams with packages that involve Rust¹
• Maintain the Rust packaging policy

We host packages on salsa:

• rustc and cargo are at rust-team/rust (cargo used to be its own packaging at rust-team/cargo, but has since been merged into the rustc package since 1.70.0+dfsg1-1)
• normal packages are in a monorepo at rust-team/debcargo-conf, see Packaging process

Get involved

• Mailing list: debian-rust@lists.debian.org, subscribe (also list archive)
• IRC: #debian-rust:irc.oftc.net
• Matrix: #debian-rust:matrix.debian.social (bridged to the IRC channel)

Join the team

Welcome, and thank you for helping out! Please subscribe to the mailing list and say hello in the IM channels. Because the packaging process is a bit different than in other places, we think it's helpful to start with a MR, so we can help you getting used to it. When you are confident, Request Access on the salsa team page ("︙" button to the right of the team name).

This book

The source is at rust-team/book. It's built using salsa CI and published to https://rust-team.pages.debian.net/book/. Its pipeline definition is in the .gitlab-ci.yml file in the repo.