What is going on with the ubuntu/debian debacle ?

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 23:27:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 03:28:33 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 11/19/2016 3:03 PM, 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 ?
>>
>> Bugzilla numbers?
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16794  (links to other 
> bugs included in report)

How Ubuntu-based distributions, but that are late on updates (I 
think to Mint for example which will not need PIE compatibility 
before months) will be affected by the need .deb ?