Re: Stepping down from rakudo packaging for Debian

Thank you for all your hard work, Dominique!

Do we have any Debian users on the mailing-list willing to step up?

Best Regards, Bill.


> On Dec 2, 2023, at 07:01, Dominique Dumont <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> After 10 years of maintaining rakudo and it modules for Debian, I've never 
> really managed to learn Raku. 
> 
> Now, my work life has changed, I'm now a devops freelance and I no longer have 
> the time and energy to maintain packages that I don't actually use. So I'm 
> stepping down from Debian Rakudo packaging team.
> 
> Unfortunately, I was the last people active on packaging activities for Rakudo 
> and Rakudo modules. This means that, unless someone steps up, Rakudo package 
> will not be updated for Debian and its derivatives distributions (Ubuntu, 
> Mint...) 
> 
> If needed, I will help with the maintenance of dh-raku and dh-make-raku and to 
> sponsor packagers who are not Debian Developers. Please reach out to me if you 
> need help packaging for Debian. (see also https://mentors.debian.net/)
> 
> This last weeks I've tried to leave this project with packages in a good 
> shape. I've fixed some bugs in dh-raku [1] and dh-make-raku [2] and updated 
> some Raku modules (to debug dh-make-raku)
> 
> Unfortunately, I've encountered yet another problem with raku precompilation 
> of raku-json-class. This is explained in a patch [3] I've tried on rakudo. But 
> this patch is not enough. There's another mysterious precompilation error.
> 
> I guess this problem should be discussed by my successor with Rakudo 
> developers at this github issue: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/5099 
> 
> All the best
> 
> Dod 
> 
> [1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dh-raku/index.html
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/perl6-team/dh-make-raku
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/perl6-team/rakudo/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/
> patches/fix-bin-source-time-compare
> 
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