Why does DMD on Debian need xdg-utils

[flamencofantasy via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 17:54:07 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 17:36:46 UTC, flamencofantasy wrote:
>> DMD on debian depends on the xdg-utils package.
>>
>> When I install xdg-utils I get many more packages (see bottom 
>> of message).
>>
>> Is that really necessary?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> It shouldn't be necessary. It's probably a packaging issue. 
> Meanwhile, you can try the install.sh script on listed on 
> http://dlang.org/download. It shouldn't have any unnecessary 
> dependencies.

Thanks, but does the script handle upgrades?