LDC and the Debian Repository

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 13:48 +0200, David Nadlinger wrote:
[...]
> The maintainer of the Debian package is Arthur Loiret, so I'm not 
> sure what we as LDC devs can do about that. I'm also not quite 
> sure what the problem with the package is in the first place? Was 
> libconfig kicked out of the Debian repositories? Seems 
> unlikely… (and apparently it ships with Ubuntu, at least: 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig)

Debian maintainers are often overworked folk who miss the occasional
thing and need a gentle "heads up".  Downstream folk building a friendly
and constructive relationship with Debian maintainers generally helps
everyone. I found this with Groovy and Gant. The original Debian
maintainers had lost motivation so by constructive discussion with them
and others from the Java maintenance team a very satisfactory situation
for all arose and now Groovy, Gant, etc. seem to get packaged just a few
hours after a release!

Is Arthur a sole maintainer or is he part of a team.  gdc presumably is
part of the GCC suite.  ldc could be part of the LLVM suite?

The particular problem for Debian Unstable is that libconfig++8 has gone
from amd64 Debian Unstable because libconfig++9 has replaced it.  The
ldc package however mandates libconfig++8. I suspect it just need a
trivial edit and repackage -- assuming libconfig++8 and libconfig++9 are
the same as far as ldc is concerned.

The problem in Ubuntu seems to be a different one, but of the same
type. 
  
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