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The debian rust team makes heavy use of virtual packages to reduce the number of real packages in the archive (and in some cases the number of trips through new) while retaining flexibility to split if necessary (either for multiple versions of a crate or where featuresets that previously had the same dependencies diverge).
Unfortunately the key packages script does not take virtual packages into account. The result of this is that a large number of rust packages that ought to be on the key packages list (as a result of firefox depending on cbindgen which build-depends on a bunch of rust packages) are not on there.