Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jo Shields <direct...@apebox.org>
* Package name : mono-reference-assemblies Version : 3.12.1 Upstream Author : Xamarin Inc * URL : http://www.mono-project.com/ * License : (Mostly MIT, a few others, see debian/copyright) Programming Lang: (C#) Description : Mono runtime - compiler compatibility for older .NET releases Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library. These packages contains files required to compile applications against an older version of .NET, using Mono 4.0 or above, which only include the latest version of the class library as-is. This is important for producing apps for wider distribution This is essentially a re-upload of an obsolete Mono version, as a new source package - the files generated here are bundled as binary blobs in upstream Mono releases, and we are simply regenerating them cleanly from source for inclusion in the Debian archive - this is similar to libstdc++5/gcc-3.3 still being in the archive