Debian install package for dmd?

[Joel C. Salomon]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up
>> essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a
>> script, and voila! a self-installing download?
> 
> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in
> the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD.
> (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific
> to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)

I don't see that the generated package needs to be DFSG-compliant; the
package can be installed by downloading the .deb from digitalmars.com --
or even by adding dm.com as a repository (which would require slightly
more set-up on the DM folks' parts).

--Joel