Bug#813700: ITP: mono-reference-assemblies -- Mono runtime - compiler compatibility for older .NET releases

[Jo Shields <directhex@apebox.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jo Shields <directhex@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