Shouldn't the filesystem utilities be base-system packages, though? Like e2fsprogs, xfsprogs ... I guess rust just isn't appropriate for base-system packages, because the dependencies move too fast, and so rust components need to depend on different specific versions of all dependencies, and are "horrifically out-of-date" in just a few months ... and rust developers wouldn't stoop so low as to recognize that e.g. bindgen is a particularly hairy and touchy dependency so they should just vendor the bindings output by bindgen, rather than the entire bindgen tool plus all other dependencies in full ...
I'm not that familiar with bcachefs-tools and was speaking more generally but I thought bcachefs-tools wasn't critical for normal booting (On Ubuntu 24.04 nothing seems to depend on that package and it seems optional. The same for btrfs-tools). Some other comments suggested you need it to mount a degraded file system but it seems to me that is a case where either 1. your system can't boot and you need external recovery boot tools anyway or 2. you can boot and can run whatever tools you want (you can install the latest version of bcachefs-tools via nixpkgs for example). The real problem there seems to be that the program was silently broken due to the changes made to get it to build on Debian.
Though I agree that it is closer to a system-critical package than most packages.
IIRC the brokenness was simply due to a bug in an upstream release of bindgen, which "was quickly fixed upstream, but as far as I know it's still broken in Debian" (which must have some reason of not updating bindgen again ...) so it wasn't some subtle incompatibility or modification to bcachefs-tools IMHO, it was just bindgen.
> and rust developers wouldn't stoop so low as to recognize that e.g. bindgen is a particularly hairy and touchy dependency so they should just vendor the bindings output by bindgen
Why can't Debian do that though?
Moreover vendoring is generally considered a bad practice, more so by Debian, so this just seems a step backwards.
