Tools

cargo-debstatus

Run in crate directory (alongside Cargo.toml) to check packaging status of dependencies.

See its section in Hacks.

bacon

Runs cargo check/clippy/test/run/etc. in the background, as you code. Customizable. Nice for patching, but beware, unless you install all the dependencies and replace source to them, it pulls from crates.io, which might be different with what's in Debian.

Not yet packaged: install with cargo install bacon.

quilt

Patch management tool. Debian source format 3.0 is named after it (3.0 (quilt) in debian/source/format).