Misleading .deb package description for ldc
Joseph Rushton Wakeling via digitalmars-d-ldc
digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 22 16:24:52 PDT 2015
I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier rebuild
of ldc;-) and out of curiosity, checked what ldc version was
available in the repos. The result (shown below) seems a bit
outdated in its description to me -- surely "LDC already compiles
a lot of D code, but should still be considered beta quality" is
by now a terrible misrepresentation of the state of the compiler?
$ apt-cache show ldc
Package: ldc
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 27410
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
<ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos at debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.14.0.dfsg-1build1
Provides: d-compiler, d-v2-compiler
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libconfig++9v5, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1),
libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Recommends: libphobos2-ldc-dev, libphobos2-ldc-debug
Filename: pool/universe/l/ldc/ldc_0.14.0.dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 7811352
MD5sum: 2f5c2a001b13078ebc0753b5acae8f21
SHA1: 91fccbca86337188eca3c8e66b562e6598ed6cb3
SHA256:
331330b183a9bdcfadb1c74ba99ae031297c63122f321af568236703e4e45434
Description-en: LLVM D Compiler
LDC is a compiler for the D programming Language. It is based on
the
latest DMD frontend and uses LLVM as backend.
.
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.
.
This is the actual ldc compiler
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