I've learnt a surprising amount by looking at how other people are packaging my difftastic project!
(1) A local copy of the manual doesn't have the version (OpenBSD packaging fixes this).
(2) One of my dependencies has been yanked (Void Linux packaging fixes this).
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Overall it seems like the Rust for Linux is making huge strides. Greg KH is super supportive of it[1] and the wider Linux community is pretty positive[2] (see all the quotes at the end of the slides).
1: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/
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I've had a new Linux laptop for several weeks and only just realised that I didn't have `man` installed!
Google is my default the vast majority of the time, and this seems to confirm it.