LDC blacklisted in Ubuntu

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 17:26:25 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> Some rather urgent news: LDC has just been blacklisted in 
> Ubuntu.

It is not really news, as the LDC version in the Debian repo has 
not been updated for ages. But yes, it would definitely be 
important to have an LDC package in as many distribution repos as 
possible.

> This seems to be entirely down to no one keeping the Debian 
> universe up to date with the latest LDC work. :-(
>
> Could someone on the LDC team get in touch with Ubuntu and see 
> what can be done about this?

As far as I see, we would at the very least need somebody to 
maintain the Debian/Ubuntu packages for this. Unfortunately, 
nobody on the core dev team uses Ubuntu for their daily work, or 
has other experiences with Debian packages.

It would be great if somebody from the D community experienced in 
packaging could jump in to help us on this front. We'd be happy 
to help with any questions, and I don't think the packaging 
process should be particularly difficult (LDC builds fine on 
Ubuntu, and Arch and Fedora are already shipping recent 
versions). The thing is just that creating good packages for a 
system you are not intimately familiar with is quite hard, and we 
are already chronically lacking manpower anyway.

David