SLIME: there is no package with name "ASDF"

The known bug with

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[1]> 
;; Loading file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp ...
*** - READ de
       #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER
         #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" @143>
      : there is no package with name "ASDF"

The following restarts are available:
ABORT          :R1      Abort main loop
Break 1 SWANK-LOADER[2]>  

seems not yet fixed (2012-01-05). 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640815

The solution proposed there worked for me:

Ok I realized that I had to manually setup ASDF in my ~/.clisprc:

  (load #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-asdf/asdf.lisp")

Or, for SBCL, in my ~/.sbclrc

  (require 'asdf)

Mentionning this fact in the README.Debian would be useful for CL newbies