Bug#968921: ITP: dotnet-core-3.1 -- Microsoft .NET Core SDK 3.0.100

[Alistair Young <avatar@arkane-systems.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alistair Young <avatar@arkane-systems.net>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, avatar@arkane-systems.net

* Package name    : dotnet-core-3.1
  Version         : 3.0.100
  Upstream Author : Microsoft <dotnetcore@microsoft.com>
* URL             : https://dotnet.microsoft.com/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C++, C#, F#
  Description     : Microsoft .NET Core SDK 3.0.100

.NET Core is a development platform that you can use to build
command-line applications, microservices and modern websites. It
is open source, cross-platform and is supported by Microsoft.

Relevant information:

This package is built from the Microsoft-provided source-build
repository, which provides a source tarball for .NET Core
specifically intended to meet "common Linux distribution guidelines".

As Microsoft themselves point out, packaging this for main is
useful because it lowers the barrier to use of .NET Core to one
equivalent to other in-distro languages without requiring the
use of third-party repositories, especially when the runtime is
needed as a dependency of another package. (This latter is
among my personal motivations for doing this, insofar as another
package I have in process, systemd-genie, requires this.)

I anticipate maintaining this package myself; this should be
quite simple given the dotnet/source-build repository which
provides all necessary components to be packaged in the proper
form, and will become even simpler once bootstrapping is
no longer necessary.

I will, however, need a sponsor.