The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

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Tue Apr 11 08:03:36 PDT 2017


On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:56:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> But if we just use dub - which _is_ the official packaging and 
> build tool - then we avoid these issues. Ideally, the compiler 
> and dub would be part of the distro, but libraries don't need 
> to be. And it sounds like that's basically how the Go and Rust 
> folks want to function as well. So, it would make sense for 
> these languages to simply not have their libraries be included 
> in distros. The build tools are plenty.

This is not compatible with Debian. Debian requires to include 
*everything*. You must be able to build every package without 
network access only from source packages.

Essentially, somebody must fix this dub issue: 
https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/838




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