LDC blacklisted in Ubuntu

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 26 September 2012 16:46, David Nadlinger <see at klickverbot.at> wrote:
> > On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:59:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd add here that you're talking about by far the most widely used distro.
> >> [?]
> >> Isn't it worth someone from the LDC team discussing with the Ubuntu people
> >> concerned (e.g. the person who decided to blacklist the package) and try and
> >> get their feedback and advice on packaging?  My experience is that the
> >> Ubuntu team are fairly friendly and helpful.
> >
> >
> > I don't doubt that distro packages are vital for providing a smooth
> > experience for Linux users. However, and this is unfortunately a big
> > "however", at the same time I don't think I will be able to look into
> > providing those packages myself any time soon (besides for Arch, but that
> > front is already covered; big thanks to Sven/svenstaro!), simply because I'm
> > happy if I find enough time to look into any LDC issues whatsoever at all
> > right now.
> >
> > Joseph, Russel, you seem to be both personally interested in D/LDC and quite
> > knowledgeable about Debian-style packaging. Might I suggest that you think
> > about joining the LDC forces as a package maintainer? It certainly isn't a
> > huge amount of work to do, but many small items also add up?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> 
> 
> Was it Mattias or Arthur who was the last maintainer?  I could
> probably pull some strings with them to pass it down to a more active
> / willing maintainer.  Heck, I don't mind putting my name down as the
> package maintainer.
> 
> 
> Regards
> -- 
> Iain Buclaw
> 
> *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

I have on my personal todo list a few major items (among many others):

1) add support for multiple projects (dmd2 being the only one currently)
2) add packaging of built artifacts for master builds
3) add uploading of packaged builds to github
4) on-demand builds of specific tags -- intended for release builds

I have made some of the internal cleanups to the build server to prepare 
for #1, but there's still a lot to do, though mostly in the administrative 
interfaces, not _that_ much on the get things to run a build side.

It's been my intent to use gdc and/or ldc as the first examples of non-dmd 
projects supported by the auto-tester.

The result of the above features would be that releases would be fully 
automated, at least from the point of tag creation through uploaded and 
publically available packages.

I don't know what's involved in getting built-packages into the various 
distributions.  I suspect that a number of them prefer to be built by 
their own automation from original (or forked) sources.  I'd be happy to 
engage with the appropriate people to explore ways to work together in 
this space.

No promises on any delivery dates, but work is in progress.

Thoughts?

Later,
Brad