I'd like to play with the Rust language on Ubuntu, but there don't seem to be any packages. Did I miss it or is there some problem?
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I see there is a Debian prospective package bug 689207 still open. There are initial packages but it's not ready to be in the distribution. There is also a Debian wiki page about the packaging effort.
It alludes to the fact that Rust's compiler is written in Rust so the bootstrapping process is strange, so perhaps that's why it's not packaged yet.
There are some issues in upstream Rust that make it hard to package. Bootstrapping is apparently not a catastrophic problem as packagers can start from a binary snapshot.
Updated May 2016: Happily, rustc is now in Debian testing, so should be in Ubuntu within a year or so.
