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

[Gerald via Digitalmars-d]

Looking into Rust and Cargo Debian packaging, it looks like they 
are looking to go with source packages to work around the ABI 
issue:

"Because Rust doesn't have a stable shared-library ABI, and we 
don't want to rebuild every Rust library package for every 
architecture every time we upload a new version of rustc, we 
package library crates as source code, installed into 
/usr/share/cargo/registry/cratename-version/. Thus, the Debian 
"binary" package for a library crate contains the same source as 
the source package."

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-policy-draft/4453