#1128610 ITP: rust-cef -- Rust bindings to Chromium Embedded Framework

#1128610#5
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2026-02-21 21:21:25 UTC
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* Package name    : rust-cef
  Version         : 145.1.1
  Upstream Contact: Wu Yu Wei <yuweiwu@pm.me>
* URL             : https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs
* License         : Apache-2.0 or MIT
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : Rust bindings to Chromium Embedded Framework

 This crate provides safe, high-level Rust bindings to the Chromium
 Embedded Framework (CEF). It wraps the raw FFI provided by cef-dll-sys
 with idiomatic Rust types including reference counting, string conversion,
 and trait-based callback interfaces for browser lifecycle management.

 The primary consumer right now in Debian will be stremio-gtk, a GTK4
media center
 application that uses CEF for its web-based UI.

 The crate is maintained by the Tauri team and is part of the broader
Tauri desktop application
 ecosystem.

 The package depends on rust-cef-dll-sys and chromium-embedded-framework
 (ITP #915400) for the native CEF shared library.

 I intend to have this package maintained within the Debian Rust Team.