On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:56:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
But if we just use dub - which _is_ the official packaging and build tool - then we avoid these issues. Ideally, the compiler and dub would be part of the distro, but libraries don't need to be. And it sounds like that's basically how the Go and Rust folks want to function as well. So, it would make sense for these languages to simply not have their libraries be included in distros. The build tools are plenty.
This is not compatible with Debian. Debian requires to include *everything*. You must be able to build every package without network access only from source packages.
Essentially, somebody must fix this dub issue: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/838
