dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 28 22:20:22 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 10:09:06 UTC, Ralph Amissah wrote:
> Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try 
> to write a file named '/usr/bin/dman'
>
> Debian Stretch is out, the freeze is over, perhaps now dmd will 
> soon be
> available as a package in Debian? Ldc2 does a great job but for 
> testing
> purposes and convenience it would be good to have the reference 
> compiler.
> Is there likely to be D related activity at DebCamp and DebConf 
> 2017, Montreal?

You probably want to join efforts and forces with Matthias Klump.

http://forum.dlang.org/post/hhefnnighbowonxsnbdy@forum.dlang.org

Though due to missing contributors not much has been packaged:

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-d-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org

However, of course there are more D packages in Debian that are 
maintained by other groups, e.g.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbiod-dev
https://packages.debian.org/sid/gdc
...


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