[Pkg-d-devel] Process for adding dinotify and unit-threaded

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
[…]
> Absolutely! It just needs someone to do the packaging work and to
> maintain the packages (that is, update to newer versions and fix
> bugs).

If someone can induct me into the Correct Way™ of doing packaging
within the pkg-d-devel context, I can set some stuff up and ensure it
all works. However, I do not have the signatures on my PGP keys to
qualify as a Debian Maintainer. So someone else would have to do the
final bit.

[…]
> tl;dr: We need package maintainers for D stuff! If you are interested
> in doing the packaging work, I could review & sponsor packages, and
> we
> could also give access to the Debian D Team Git repository (although
> I
> need to research how that works now with Debian switching to Gitlab
> for packaging).

I have a GitLab account. I am surprised at Debian switching to that but
maybe they can no longer sustain their own infrastructure, and so are
happy with the indirect sponsorship from GitLab.

For Debian is GitLab a better resource than GitHub?

> The benefit of having more D code in Debian is that D becomes a lot
> more visible in the community, and D compilers get much better
> supported in general in the distribution (and it apparently also
> means
> we find tons of bugs in LDC and LLVM, at the moment
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879040 is still
> unresolved).

With the licence change, perhaps now is the time to push for DMD
getting into Debian to join LDC and GDC? Making D-Apt redundant ought
to be a goal. :-)

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