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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.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

This is the official stance.

But no it's not really news, since Debian already has a hard dependency on rust, as noted in the article.