> but given the relative "freshness" of your typical Rust package vs say... Debian stable That's not how Debian development is done, fresh software is uploaded

> but given the relative "freshness" of your typical Rust package vs say... Debian stable That's not how Debian development is done, fresh software is uploaded to unstable only and then eventually ends up in a stable release. As a maintainer, Debian stable is something you support, not something you develop against.