Call for arms: Arch Linux D package maintenance

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 19:56:20 UTC, Seb wrote:

> Ouch - so how do we improve the status quo?
> It's July, the packages are still listed as orphans [1], 
> haven't received the 2.074.1 update and the Arch TUs are 
> clearly not interested in maintaining it (its flagged as 
> out-of-date since beginning of June). Moreover, with the recent 
> move to -fPIC (which currently is in -fPIC), the packages would 
> need a rebuilt with -fPIC (see [2]).
> Anyone with an idea?
>
> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dmd
> [2] 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/gpbyhmdsudlmapsvvqmq@forum.dlang.org

As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, I quit using Arch because of 
related problems. The answer (assuming things are still run the 
way they were back then) is that you're not able to do anything 
about it. You won't see anything done with the official package 
and you won't be able to put anything in AUR because there is an 
official package. Perhaps we can post a pkgbuild on dlang.org.