Official dub packages for Debian and Ubuntu

Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 14 11:42:49 PDT 2016


El 14/04/16 a les 17:54, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit:
> On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 13:28:29 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
>> El 12/04/16 a les 14:26, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit:
>>>> I assume that the DMD package from dlang, or better d-apt, sets the d- compiler property. Should dmd be prefered if it is present?
>>>
>>> I think so, since when installing it from non-free 3rd-party sources, the user made an explicit choice for DMD.
>>> In terms of packaging, the packaging doesn't really care, any D compiler will satisfy the requirements of the dub package.
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>> No, dmd deb packages from dlang and d-apt do not set any d-compiler property. Where should it be set?
> 
> I think with "property" you mean "virtual package". See https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual
> Basically, the dmd package needs a "Provides: d-compiler" line, then it should be able to satisfy the dependencies of the dub package.

Thanks. What happen is multiple packages, all of them not installed, sets "Provides: d-compiler"? Which one is installed?


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