The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 13:20:00 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> This has worked nicely for every language. If you don't have 
> templates in your API or don't change the templates between 
> releases, you can survive with one library for a long time.

But the vast majority of D libraries _do_ have templates 
(starting with Phobos).  How should this situation be dealt with?

How does Debian deal with, e.g., fixes to the templated code in 
Boost, which impact on other packages built using those 
header-only libraries?