dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d]

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.

Long-term, we will likely be using GDC in Debian as default D 
compiler, if that becomes viable. That GDC is in GCC now is a 
very big deal, which makes maintaining D in Debian and any Linux 
distribution (which uses GCC as system compiler) much easier.
Also, there is some company interest now, since it is expected 
that GCC/GDC will hit enterprise distributions such as RHEL as 
well, and thereby be widely available.

That being said, I want DMD to be available in Debian, and LDC is 
doing a very good job at the moment and is serving as our 
de-facto default D compiler.
Unfortunately now that the dman binary name is taken, DMD can't 
have it in Debian and that binary would have to be renamed, even 
if just temporarily in case we could convince the -goodies 
maintainer to change the name of the existing binary.

> Is there likely to be D related activity at DebCamp and DebConf 
> 2017, Montreal?

Nothing is planned yet, but if there is interest in it, I would 
be happy to organize a BoF session there.

Cheers,
     Matthias