It is still not possible to use D on debian/ubuntu

[Elronnd via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 11:50:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:

> LDC which is packaged by both Debian and Fedora is the
> only practically usable D compiler on both these platforms.

What's impractical about downloading and installing an rpm?  For 
that matter, downloading the source and compiling it isn't all 
that impractical either.