Given the release of 2.063, it would be good to upgrade. Clearly I could download the deb and rpm files and put them in my local repository. However, there is the D APT repository and it seems good to use this instead for Debian.

I wonder if it would be a good idea for people interested in Debian stuff to get together led by Jordi and turn https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/ into something that is clearly an integral part of the D core activity based on a dlang.org domain URL? Something similar to get Fedora 18 (and 19?) packages in place as well?

The alternative is to inject directly into Debian Unstable and into RPM Fusion which would of course be even better.

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On 05/31/2013 04:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Given the release of 2.063, it would be good to upgrade. Clearly I could
> download the deb and rpm files and put them in my local repository.
> However, there is the D APT repository and it seems good to use this
> instead for Debian.
>
> I wonder if it would be a good idea for people interested in Debian
> stuff to get together led by Jordi and turn
> https://code.google.com/p/d-apt/ into something that is clearly an
> integral part of the D core activity based on a dlang.org domain URL?
> Something similar to get Fedora 18 (and 19?) packages in place as well?
>
> The alternative is to inject directly into Debian Unstable and into RPM
> Fusion which would of course be even better.
>

Yes, please.

But I wonder if RPM Fusion would balk at dmd's kooky distribution restrictions?

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:08 -0700, Ellery Newcomer wrote: […]
> But I wonder if RPM Fusion would balk at dmd's kooky distribution restrictions?

Hummm… that may just make it impossible to get DMD into Debian, and hence Mint and probably Ubuntu, except in the non-free section. RPM Fusion is less fussy isn't it?

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On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:21:59AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:08 -0700, Ellery Newcomer wrote: […]
> > But I wonder if RPM Fusion would balk at dmd's kooky distribution restrictions?
> 
> Hummm… that may just make it impossible to get DMD into Debian, and hence Mint and probably Ubuntu, except in the non-free section. RPM Fusion is less fussy isn't it?
[...]

It may be able to get into non-free, which will still be mostly available to Debian users. Not ideal, but better than nothing IMO.


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