Julian andres klode, an apt maintainer, has announced plans to introduce hard rust dependencies into apt starting may 2026 The apt packaging tool next year will begin requiring a rust compiler 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
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Debian's apt package manager will have a hard requirement on rust from may 2026
This move may make some rather big waves
I plan to introduce hard rust dependencies and rust code into apt, no earlier than may 2026 Apt to gain rust code from may 2026 as debian modernises its package manager. From may 2026, debian apt will mandatorily require rust Debian developer julian andres klode sent out a message on halloween that may give some debian linux users and developers a spook
