Re: dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies
On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 10:09:06 UTC, Ralph Amissah wrote: Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file named '/usr/bin/dman' Debian Stretch is out, the freeze is over, perhaps now dmd will soon be available as a package in Debian? Ldc2 does a great job but for testing purposes and convenience it would be good to have the reference compiler. Long-term, we will likely be using GDC in Debian as default D compiler, if that becomes viable. That GDC is in GCC now is a very big deal, which makes maintaining D in Debian and any Linux distribution (which uses GCC as system compiler) much easier. Also, there is some company interest now, since it is expected that GCC/GDC will hit enterprise distributions such as RHEL as well, and thereby be widely available. That being said, I want DMD to be available in Debian, and LDC is doing a very good job at the moment and is serving as our de-facto default D compiler. Unfortunately now that the dman binary name is taken, DMD can't have it in Debian and that binary would have to be renamed, even if just temporarily in case we could convince the -goodies maintainer to change the name of the existing binary. Is there likely to be D related activity at DebCamp and DebConf 2017, Montreal? Nothing is planned yet, but if there is interest in it, I would be happy to organize a BoF session there. Cheers, Matthias
Re: dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies
On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 10:09:06 UTC, Ralph Amissah wrote: Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file named '/usr/bin/dman' Debian Stretch is out, the freeze is over, perhaps now dmd will soon be available as a package in Debian? Ldc2 does a great job but for testing purposes and convenience it would be good to have the reference compiler. Is there likely to be D related activity at DebCamp and DebConf 2017, Montreal? You probably want to join efforts and forces with Matthias Klump. http://forum.dlang.org/post/hhefnnighbowonxsn...@forum.dlang.org Though due to missing contributors not much has been packaged: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-d-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org However, of course there are more D packages in Debian that are maintained by other groups, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbiod-dev https://packages.debian.org/sid/gdc ...
Re: dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies
On 06/28/2017 06:09 AM, Ralph Amissah via Digitalmars-d wrote: Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file named '/usr/bin/dman' Debian Stretch is out, the freeze is over, Which one is "stretch"?
Re: dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:09:06AM -0400, Ralph Amissah via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file > named '/usr/bin/dman' [...] I filed a bug for you: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17569 (Next time, please file a bug directly at https://issues.dlang.org/, as problems reported on the forum may get overlooked / forgotten.) This is a pretty major issue IMO, because this gratuitous conflict with an unfortunately-named, marginal utility can be a big turnoff for Debian users who may be wanting to try out D for the first time. The last thing we need is for something I doubt anyone (other than certain D devs) actually uses to become a reason to turn away from D, just because by random chance he also has the debian-goodies package installed. T -- Let's not fight disease by killing the patient. -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies
Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file named '/usr/bin/dman' Debian Stretch is out, the freeze is over, perhaps now dmd will soon be available as a package in Debian? Ldc2 does a great job but for testing purposes and convenience it would be good to have the reference compiler. Is there likely to be D related activity at DebCamp and DebConf 2017, Montreal? * failed attempt to install dmd with debian-goodies installed sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.074.1-0_amd64.1.deb (Reading database ... 224610 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack dmd_2.074.1-0_amd64.1.deb ... Unpacking dmd (2.074.1-0) ... dpkg: error processing archive dmd_2.074.1-0_amd64.1.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/dman', which is also in package debian-goodies 0.74 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.075.0~b1-0_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 224610 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack dmd_2.075.0~b1-0_amd64.deb ... Unpacking dmd (2.075.0~b1-0) ... dpkg: error processing archive dmd_2.075.0~b1-0_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/dman', which is also in package debian-goodies 0.74 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) * debian-goodies information on debian-goodies (the package dmd conflicts with): apt show debian-goodies Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.74 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña Installed-Size: 199 kB Depends: curl, dctrl-tools | grep-dctrl, perl, python3, whiptail | dialog Recommends: lsof Suggests: lsb-release, popularity-contest, xdg-utils, zenity Conflicts: debget Replaces: debget Tag: implemented-in::python, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, suite::debian, use::searching, works-with::bugs, works-with::software:package Download-Size: 73.4 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages Description: Small toolbox-style utilities for Debian systems These programs are designed to integrate with standard shell tools, extending them to operate on the Debian packaging system. . dgrep - Search all files in specified packages for a regex dglob - Generate a list of package names which match a pattern . These are also included, because they are useful and don't justify their own packages: . debget - Fetch a .deb for a package in APT's database dpigs - Show which installed packages occupy the most space debman - Easily view man pages from a binary .deb without extracting debmany- Select manpages of installed or uninstalled packages dman - Fetch manpages from online manpages.debian.org service checkrestart - Help to find and restart processes which are using old versions of upgraded files (such as libraries) popbugs- Display a customized release-critical bug list based on packages you use (using popularity-contest data) which-pkg-broke- find which package might have broken another check-enhancements - find packages which enhance installed packages