Official dub packages for Debian and Ubuntu

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 16:57:41 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 01:58:13 UTC, Matthias Klumpp 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I can ask, but given that the Xenial final freeze is on 24. 
>> April (release on 26.) and changing compiler versions that 
>> late in the cycle is potentially dangerous, I guess there is 
>> only a slim chance of success... On the pro-side is that 
>> having a beta compiler in the LTS release is undesirable, but 
>> even then I need to find an Ubuntu developer who does have 
>> time to do the sync and get the feature-freeze-exception. LDC 
>> FTBFSing on armel in Debian (and not entering testing due to 
>> that at time) is also an issue :-/
>
> Ouch :-(  Well, if you are happy to look into it, that would be 
> great -- no pressure, though. :-)

Freeze exception for LDC was approved last-minute, which means 
the final release will be in Xenial :-)

> BTW, the package description for ldc, in both Debian and 
> Ubuntu, is insanely out of date: it reads,
>
>    LDC already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be
>    considered beta quality. Take a look at the tickets to get
>    a better impression on what still needs to be implemented.
>
> ... which AFAICT is unchanged from something like 5+ years ago, 
> when the ldc packaged in Debian/Ubuntu was a D1-only compiler 
> still in heavy development.

Yeah, the description is really off-putting and should absolutely 
be changed... You can contect the Debian maintainer, Konstantinos 
Margaritis <markos at debian.org> about it.
Alternatively, I can also report a bug against LDC (need to find 
time for that, maybe tomorrow).

Cheers,
     Matthias