Re: Raku is removed from Debian

Dominique - I've registered my email on the mentor site as a placeholder,
at least.

I assume this is something that with a little help, anyone who compiles
rakudo regularly would be able to get a new release packaged at least a few
times a year.

As someone who managed a macport aeons ago, any chance you could hold my
hand through the process of getting the package updated? I'm happy to make
the code/config changes and do the actual submittal.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:31 AM Dominique Dumont <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 12:25:21 CEST Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > As I feared, raku was removed from Debian testing. Which means that raku
> > will be missing in next Debian release, and probably from Ubuntu and
> Mint.
> >
> > What led to this situation ?
> > - the last version of raku provided in Debian is 2022.12 and it does not
> > compile with GCC14. This is a critical bug which triggered the removal of
> > moarvm and all its reverse dependencies, i.e. nqp, raku and all raku
> > modules.
>
> Sorry, I hit send by accident.
>
> To revert this removal, Raku needs a volunteer (or many) to take over
> packaging raku and its dependencies. I'm fine with helping these people to
> ramp
> up on packaging Raku for Debian.
>
> See https://mentors.debian.net/ for details on how to package for Debian.
>
> If nobody steps up, raku will eventually be removed from unstable. Once
> that
> point is reached, getting raku back in Debian will be more difficult.
>
> All the best
>
> Dod (he/him)
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