Re: Interest in Packaging RustDesk for Debian – Coordination & Upstream Contact

[kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>]

On 5/15/25 2:10 PM, Arian Ott wrote:
> I’m currently contributing to the Debian Python Team (Maintaining 
> python-slugify) and was recently contacted about the possibility of 
> packaging RustDesk (https://rustdesk.com <https://rustdesk.com>; 
> https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk <https://github.com/rustdesk/ 
> rustdesk> ) for Debian.
>
> After some research, I found that RustDesk already provides a 
> functional .deb build (https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/ 
> tag/1.4.0 <https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/tag/1.4.0> ) 
> and has an active upstream with regular releases. I have reached out to 
> them and they appear to be open to collaboration to get RustDesk 
> properly packaged for Debian.

The build instructions seem very involved (I'm not sure why that is though):

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=rustdesk

I'm also not sure if there's any prior art for flutter in Debian.

cheers,
kpcyrd