• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (38/38) Oct 22 2015 I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier rebuild
• Joakim (4/11) Oct 22 2015 That was the tagline on the old dsource page for ldc for a long

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier rebuild 
of ldc;-) and out of curiosity, checked what ldc version was 
available in the repos.  The result (shown below) seems a bit 
outdated in its description to me -- surely "LDC already compiles 
a lot of D code, but should still be considered beta quality" is 
by now a terrible misrepresentation of the state of the compiler?

$ apt-cache show ldc
Package: ldc
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 27410
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 
<ubuntu-devel-discuss lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.14.0.dfsg-1build1
Provides: d-compiler, d-v2-compiler
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libconfig++9v5, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), 
libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Recommends: libphobos2-ldc-dev, libphobos2-ldc-debug
Filename: pool/universe/l/ldc/ldc_0.14.0.dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 7811352
MD5sum: 2f5c2a001b13078ebc0753b5acae8f21
SHA1: 91fccbca86337188eca3c8e66b562e6598ed6cb3
SHA256: 
331330b183a9bdcfadb1c74ba99ae031297c63122f321af568236703e4e45434
Description-en: LLVM D Compiler
  LDC is a compiler for the D programming Language. It is based on 
the
  latest DMD frontend and uses LLVM as backend.
  .
  LDC already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be 
considered
  beta quality. Take a look at the tickets to get a better 
impression
  on what still needs to be implemented.
  .
  This is the actual ldc compiler

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 23:24:53 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
 I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier 
 rebuild of ldc;-) and out of curiosity, checked what ldc 
 version was available in the repos.  The result (shown below) 
 seems a bit outdated in its description to me -- surely "LDC 
 already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be 
 considered beta quality" is by now a terrible misrepresentation 
 of the state of the compiler?

That was the tagline on the old dsource page for ldc for a long 
time.  Probably the debian packager hasn't bothered to update it.