Official dub packages for Debian and Ubuntu

[Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce]

El 11/04/16 a les 19:41, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit:
>> About the d-apt dub deb package, they're built using binaries from <https://code.dlang.org/download> and do not compile anything.
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> Eww, that's not something we can do for official packages - it's fine though for 3rd-party stuff :-)

I know it. This is the reason of my comment :-)


>> How long will it take from a dub release until dub deb package will be available on the Debian stable repositories? And for Ubuntu?
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> Depends on the release cycle of Debian and Ubuntu. Generally, once software is in stable, it will only receive security fixes, and no further upstream versions will be added. That is part of the stability promise we give to users. Every new upstream release might include changes in behavior, breaking things or introducing new bugs.
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> That being said, new upstream releases can be made available via backports, if there is demand for it (it's relatively easy, if the code compiles with the older GDC release in stable at that time).
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> The Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) release (due in April) will have dub 0.9.24, and Debian Stretch (9), which will likely be released in spring next year, will have whatever dub version is current then (or if the dub developers prefer a certain version for stable, that version).


Well, this makes useful have dub in both repositories, Debian/Ubuntu and d-apt. All Debian/Ubuntu users can always use dub on their system. If the last release is needed for any reason they can add d-apt repository to install it. d-apt takes 1-2 day to update dub deb packages after dub release. The deb package is not a problem because we use the same package name, and the version shouldn't be a problem too, the newer version will be installed regardless its source, isn't it?

$ dpkg --compare-versions "0.9.25-0" gt "0.9.24-1ubuntu1" && echo "greater" || echo "NOT greater"

Regards,
Jordi