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@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ The Rust dependencies are handled automatically by the Cargo tool on
all platforms. The other dependencies are, not including ones needed
merely for building Debian packages:
+* [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install) — the
+ programming implementation. This can be installed via the standard
+ Rust installer, `rustup`, or any other way. Obnam does not currently
+ specify an explicit minimum version of Rust it requires, but its
+ developers use whatever is the current stable version of the
+ language.
+
+ On Debian, the `build-essential` package also needs to be installed
+ to build Rust programs.
+
* [daemonize](http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/) — a tool
for running a command as a daemon in the background; needed for
testing, so that the Obnam server can be started and stopped by the