@jonas if you’re not already into this I wonder if getting safeup packaged might be easier and be almost as good as the client and node apps.
Here’s the Cargo.toml with package list: https://github.com/maidsafe/safeup/blob/main/Cargo.toml
And thank you again for packaging safe-vdash 
Thanks for raising attention to safeup- I was not aware of its exisence (although it does not surprise me), however I have no interest in packaging that for Debian:
Debian is about the 4 freedoms - those same freedoms that most folks nowadays have come to know as “Open Source” (in fact, the very definition of “Open Source” was a copy-and-paste of the Debian definition of “Free Software” when the Open Source movement began some 20-25 years ago!).
As such, it it quite important to distinguish between properly system-integrated components all built from their true source, as opposed to “hacking on top” where add-on components compiled elsewhere with tools and libraries from elsewhere, and then merely “slapped on top of” a core system.
What I have invested most of my adult life on, and intend of continuing to do even with the rise of rustup and now safeup, is a fully Free operating system.
But others are of course free to work on less extreme goals, and there is a place in the Debian ecosystem for those, called contrib: Packages that are themselves fully Free but depend on non-free parts (where in Debian context “non-free” means the 4 freedoms which includes must-have-source-available and be built from those locally available sources).
For those following the glacier pace development of this Debian packaging, it is now down to missing only 72 crates, before it can enter Debian officially.
[this note is simply to fool the shitty chat software into permitting me to post what it polices as “too similar” to what I just posted accidentally in a subthread and then deleted: Yes, doh, it is quite similar by intent!]
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Keep it up @Jonas, you are doing good work.
A backside of this post/thread/whatever now being a wiki page is that updates are less visible.
Packaging work is now in sync with newest upstream prerelease.
If you also post details of what you add to the wiki as a new post then they will see it on their front page.
And then can include a link to the wiki post so people can just click to get there if they need to review it. eg SAFE Network in Debian (and Ubuntu, FreedomBox etc.)
Thanks, bu the very reason the post was converted to a wiki page was that this forum system punishes monologues: I cannot (or could not, I would not be surprised if this system is unfair and only punishes less active posters) post details about wiki changes unless others respond “yay!” almost as frequently (and does so as actual posts, not using emojis).
Thank you for your great work.
Helping break the monologue.
Just a quick note that the packaging work is still in progress, and help is still wanted and appreciated - see the ITP bug for pending tasks that you can help with.
Glad you are still working away I’m the back ground on this.
Wish I had the skills to be of use 
Be more than happy to help with testing when required.
another shallow notice, that the top post has again been updated with current state of packaging progress.