Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] * Package name : uv Version : 0.1.x (or latest upstream version) Upstream Contact: Astral Software <[email protected]> * URL : https://github.com/astral-sh/uv * License : Apache-2.0 OR MIT Programming Lang: Rust, Python, Shell Description : extremely fast Python package installer and resolver written in Rust
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for common pip, pip-tools, and pyenv workflows, offering 10-100x speedups over standard python packaging tools. UV is much faster than pip, and pyenv. Using it allows you to replace multiple tools. The fact that it pulls down pre-compiled python versions speeds python installs up a great deal. It also makes it much easier for users as they don't have to track down packages like lzma-dev and the like. I'm willing to become a Debian maintainer if needed to get this package included with Debian. I think with the changes recently made to Python on debian requiring people to use pyenv to install non-debian maintained python packages the ease of use and speed of uv makes it worthwhile to consider to include. It would most likely fall under wither the pkg-rust team to maintain or for the PythonTeam to maintain.
