I used dub for the first time, here are a few notes

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 17:58:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 8/23/16 1:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> * In an extra twinge of irony, the link to the package format
>> specification goes to 
>> http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json,
>> i.e. the JSON format. Which is of course not what "dub init" 
>> (which I
>> duly ran because it was on the getting started page) 
>> generated. It was
>> no source of confusion to me because I had the context, but it 
>> may for
>> others.
>
> json has returned as the default format. Your distribution 
> probably installed an older dub that used sdl as the default 
> format.

Yea, unfortunately the version of dub packaged with Ubuntu 16.04 
does default to using SDL, and that version is going to be around 
for a long while (5 years' support and all that).

In principle it might be worth seeing if it's possible to upgrade 
the packaged version.