Ubuntu Summit 2023

How do Rust applications get into Debian ?

3 Nov 2023, 17:00

25m

Sigma – Talks (Radisson Blu Latvija)

Talk (25 Minutes) Application Ecosystem

Speaker

Matthias Geiger

Debian

Description

An increasing number of today's applications and libraries get written in Rust. In this talk I will explain how free software written in this programming language get packaged for Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu). A special focus will be on the GTK-rs tech stack and GTK rust GUI apps.

Session author's bio

Debian user since 2017, contributor since 11/2021, maintainer since 12/2022

Presentation materials

presentation.pdf