LDC 1.7.0

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On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 19:57:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 18:30:56 UTC, Johan Engelen 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:38:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
>>> Scherkl wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>>>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
>>>> This is a long-term support distribution.
>>>> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW 
>>>> package!
>>>> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest 
>>>> features
>>>> but only those very well tested.
>>>
>>> The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their 
>>> reason for no updates?
>>
>> LDC 1.7.0 includes major changes to the frontend and is not 
>> well-tested.
>> If you want a better-tested recent LDC, I recommend LDC 1.6.0, 
>> which is used in production at Weka.
>>
>> - Johan
>
> I expected at least 1.6 to be available in the repo by now. I 
> remember the availability of LDC in ubuntu was celebrated 
> here...now it seem abandoned after such an effort. Maybe 
> someone from the team can answer what happened.

1.6 is in Debian - as other explained before Debian is __very__ 
focused on stability.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/ldc ("Unstable" - 1.6)
https://packages.debian.org/buster/ldc (Debian 9 - 1.5)
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ldc (Debian 8 - 1.0)

Ubuntu usually lags one version behind Debian packages:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/ldc ("Unstable" - 1.5)
https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/ldc (17.10 - 1.4)

If you want to have the latest D compiler on Debian/Ubuntu, you 
have these options:

- use d-apt (d-apt.sourceforge.net)
- use the official install script (https://dlang.org/install.html)
- install the official deb package yourself 
(https://dlang.org/download.html)
- use a different distro

This is not something that can __ever__ be fixed. It's the 
fundamental way Debian's packaging and release cycle work.