Official dub packages for Debian and Ubuntu

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 18 April 2016 at 19:47:46 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> On Monday, 18 April 2016 at 16:57:27 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> Freeze exception for LDC was approved last-minute, which means 
>> the final release will be in Xenial :-)
>
> That's fantastic, thank you very much for making this happen :-)

Unfortunately it FTBFSes... Hopefully we can get the patch for 
that in as well: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/commit/cb709bfc0a0a3ee8a730c0a99fa53198b6d75364.patch
(I'm working on that)

>> 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).
>
> I'll try to follow up on this in the next days -- I'll try to 
> come up with a proposed alternative text for the LDC devs to 
> bless.

Nice! Btw, I have a note in my code that LDC apparently failed 
when using std.parallelism.parallel - I'll take a look if that 
issue still exists and if that's in my code or in LDC.