Julian andres klode, an apt maintainer, has announced plans to introduce hard rust dependencies into apt starting may 2026 Debian developers confirm that rust will become a hard dependency for apt starting may 2026, aligning with modern development practices. Essentially all linux distros based on debian, such as ubuntu, mint, and mx linux, rely on apt for package management This means that rust code is coming to all these distributions That’s perfectly fine with dome distribution architects. I plan to introduce hard rust dependencies and rust code into apt, no earlier than may 2026
This extends at first to the rust compiler and standard library, and the sequoia. A maintainer of debian's advanced package tool (apt) has announced plans to introduce hard rust dependencies into apt starting may 2026, reports the blog it's foss Debian developer julian andres klode sent out a message on halloween that may give some debian linux users and developers a spook The apt packaging tool next year will begin requiring a rust compiler This will place a hard requirement by debian linux on rust support for all architectures. From may 2026, debian apt will mandatorily require rust
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