Have you guys tried cargo-deb? Amazing!
I loath the idea of making packages for distros, so this is perfection. I add a little metadata to my Cargo.toml, and, suddenly, I have a Debian package. See:
https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb
https://github.com/kornelski/cargo-deb
Just 84 stars of GitHub? Deserves 1000!