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

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:38:01 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> If you could change the SOVERSION with every one of these 
> changes, or simply just tie it to the respective Phobos 
> release, distributions would automatically do the right thing 
> and compile all D code using Phobos against the new version.

As you mention, this is already done in LDC; not just the Debian 
packages, but also upstream. The soname will always be 
`libphobos2-ldc.so.74` or what have you.

(Thinking about it, it should probably include the patch version 
as well, although we haven't had a situation so far where we 
would have wanted to release multiple LDC versions for 
ABI-incompatible patch releases.)

  — David