What is going on with the ubuntu/debian debacle ?

Sat Nov 19 21:01:06 PST 2016

On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> A lot of users are reporting errors on debian and ubuntu. .o 
> generated by dmd do not link and libphobos.a is unusable.
>
> This is very bad and we should consider a hotfix. Is someone on 
> it ?

This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot 
fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.

  See also 
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org