Bug#959043: Packaging Mono version of MSBuild for Debian

[Ilyas Gasanov <torso.nafi@gmail.com>]

Greetings, Mr. Le Gonidec.

I'd urge you to take a look at these:

RFP: msbuild -- build platform for .NET and Visual Studio
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959043

mono-xbuild: Mono packages should provide msbuild instead of xbuild
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1033828

As far as I'm aware, the Mono project used to have its own deb
repository, which included among other things msbuild and nuget
packages. Personally I'm not seeing any licensing obstacles that would
impede their inclusion into the official Debian repository.

Also, I may not be completely sure, but apparently Mono uses its own
patched version of MSBuild which is published here:
https://github.com/mono/msbuild
(Please note the tags as well.)

There is also a "Linux packaging" repo here, it includes the debian
folder which might be easier to adapt to current sid/testing
dependencies and packaging policies:
https://github.com/mono/linux-packaging-msbuild

Meanwhile, the upstream repository of MSBuild (as maintained by
Microsoft) apparently only has support for .NET Core included out of
the box.

What do you think of this?

Sincerely,
Ilyas Gasanov