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[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> # rust-block-padding

> I didn't really make sense of this. How is a build of
> rust-block-buffer-0.9 resulting in a binary
> librust-block-buffer-0.9+block-padding-dev that has a versioned binary
> dependency on librust-block-padding-0.2+default-dev without a build-dep
> on something from rust-block-padding? I could dig deeper but I moved on
> for now.

Rust packaging uses helpers that autogenerate Debian package metadata from
the upstream crate metadata.  This includes declaring dependencies on
various other crates that are used when building against this package
(possibly in an optional non-default configuration), that are not
necessarily needed at build time (since the binary package is a -dev package
that basically contains rust source files, the runtime deps don't
necessarily need to be present as build-time deps).

So this is a very common pattern for rust packages.

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