[OT] Re: The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:15:53 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 17:50:08 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> I am reading release notes, so we rebuilt dependencies of LDC -
>
> (I assume you mean reverse dependencies.)
>
>> […] But since no bugs were reported, I assume no issues are 
>> present :-)
>
> So do we need to put a reminder about the ABI being unstable 
> into set of every release notes to make sure we won't get angry 
> bug reports once users actually build their own D code against 
> your packages? ;)

Nah, there are several options here, one would simply be to tell 
people not to use the distro packages with anything but the 
default D compiler used in the respective Debian release.
Go apparently tells people not to use Debian-shipped go code in 
their own projects at all.