Official dub packages for Debian and Ubuntu

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hello!
I am very new to the D community and just recently finished a 
project in D, which I want to make available in Debian (reason 
for choosing D was mostly its speed and similarity to C++ and C, 
making a very shallow learning curve for someone knowing these 
languages. And porting Python code to D was incredibly easy. I'll 
likely blog about my experience with D).

As part of that work, the dub package an build management system 
is now available in Debian, and I will ensure it works well.
Additionally, it was possible to make dub available late in the 
Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) development cycle, so dub will also be part 
of the upcoming LTS release of Ubuntu (kudos here go to Matthias 
Klose for pointing me at the "new" --push-state linker directive 
to work around dub not linking properly against libcurl when the 
latter is compiled with --as-needed).

Co-maintainers[1] and feedback from the dub developers is very 
welcome, and I hope this addition is useful for you.

On the roadmap are adding debhelper sequences to simplify 
packaging dub-based D code in Debian based distros, auto-test 
support in Debian's CI, and of course the usual bugfixing.

Cheers,
     Matthias

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/dub
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/dub

[1]: Especially from the d-apt people - helping with official 
Debian packages is possible even if you're no Debian Developer / 
Maintainer.