New Swift Package Repository for Ubuntu/Debian Linux Distributions

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If you are looking a drop in replacement for the Swift Community Apt Repository I have just released SwiftlyGo, a new Swift Toolchain installer and manager.

Swiftlygo is a re-imagining of the swiftly toolchain installer that has been designed specifically for use with Debian / Ubuntu Linux distributions

SwiftlyGo uses the same install location and directory structure as the .deb packages from the SCA repository.

/usr/libexec/swift
|-- 5.10.1
|   `-- usr
|       |-- bin
|       |-- include
|       |-- lib
|       |-- libexec
|       |-- local
|       `-- share
`-- 6.0.2
    `-- usr
        |-- bin
        |-- include
        |-- lib
        |-- libexec
        |-- local
        `-- share

This means that if you have Swift version 5.10.1 or later installed from the SCA repository, SwiftlyGo will recognize and manage this version without the need to reinstall it.

For more information please see the SwiftlyGo release post

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