This is pretty much my thought as well -- FWICT the ultimate problem here isn't a technical one, but a philosophical disagreement between how Rust tooling expec

This is pretty much my thought as well -- FWICT the ultimate problem here isn't a technical one, but a philosophical disagreement between how Rust tooling expects to be built and how Debian would like to build the world. Debian could adopt Rust's approach with minor technical accommodations (as evidenced by `cargo-deb`), but to do so would be to shed Debian's commitment to global version management.