Bug#995670: ITP: zig -- General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software

[Jason Ernst <ernstjason1@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jason Ernst <ernstjason1@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : ziglang
  Version         : 0.8.1
  Upstream Author : Andrew Kelley andrew@ziglang.org
* URL             : https://ziglang.org
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Zig
  Description     : General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software

Zig is quickly become a new hot language, and there is growing demand for it
to be available in mainline repositories.

There is a ticket on the Zig repo: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7340
which requests for mainline packages to be available, and the upstream
maintainer replied that it is out of scope of their repository. I would like to
volunteer to package this and maintain it so it is available easily. Others are
making similar efforts in other distributions such as Fedora.

I also have a package which pulls the release and packs it using checkinstall
at https://github.com/compscidr/zig-deb which is currently hosted from a 
3rd party gemfury repository.

For now I am happy to maintain myself, but would more than welcome anyone who
would like to form a pkg-zig team (unless people feel there is a more 
appropriate team this could fit into. Co-maintainers are also welcome. I do
need a sponsor, this is my first time participating.