Re:rustup in official apt repositories: starting from Debian...
by weinzierl on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:35AM
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> "But unlike the entire rest of Debian it's entirely & purely -dev packages."
I've heard that before and wondered what it means, so maybe someone can explain. My primitive understanding is that the regular package has the binary (executable or library) plus any additional files like man pages. The -dev package is the header files and the source package is the Debian patched source that can build the regular package. How is it different for Rust?
BTW Debian has a nice list of what is available from the Rust world:
I've heard that before and wondered what it means, so maybe someone can explain. My primitive understanding is that the regular package has the binary (executable or library) plus any additional files like man pages. The -dev package is the header files and the source package is the Debian patched source that can build the regular package. How is it different for Rust?
BTW Debian has a nice list of what is available from the Rust world:
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-rust-maintaine...