Crates.io to Debian

debcargo creates Debian source package from the provided Rust crate. Create Debian source package from the downloaded crate which follows Rust teams crate packaging policy.

Features

• Package specific versions of crates from crates.io.
• Easy to customize, using config files and overlay directories.
• Tries to auto-detect copyright information from metadata and actual crate source, used to guess appropriate values for debian/copyright.
• Put FIXME (hint) strings where it can't detect full information, so user can provide an override/overlay or manually fix it.
• Results in a lintian-clean Debian package in most cases.
• Packages can be cross-compiled by sbuild assuming the crate doesn't include anything that breaks it (such as arch-specific build.rs scripts).

Dependencies

For building:

$ apt-get build-dep cargo
$ apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev quilt
$ cargo build debcargo

Examples

To download and unpack the latest clap crate and prepare the source package:

$ debcargo package clap

To download and unpack version 2.25.0 of clap crate and prepare the source package:

$ debcargo package clap =2.25.0

To provide additional packaging-specific config for downloading and packaging latest clap crate from crates.io:

$ debcargo package --config clap-2/debian/debcargo.toml clap

See debcargo.toml.example for a sample TOML file.

Long-term maintenance workflow

See https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/blob/master/README.rst for an example.

License

Debcargo is licensed under MIT/Apache-2.0. It is written by Josh Triplett and improved by members of Debian Rust Maintainers team