On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:22:49 +0200, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Maybe for normal software/libraries.  But language and toolchain software is expected to give consistency.  Example, the chances of getting errors because the compiler is too old when backporting a C/C++ program from Debian Sid to Jessie are very low.

but D is nor C neither C++. it moves pretty fast (and i like that!), and it's debian which should play "catch the mouse" game.