[Pkg-parrot-devel] plans for parrot packaging

[Allison Randal]

Hi all,

It looks like it's been a while since the parrot packages were uploaded.
AFAICT, the last upload corresponds pretty closely to the last time the
rakudo packages depended on parrot, so I'm guessing that the pkg-parrot
team was primarily motivated by supporting Rakudo.

Is anyone here still interested in packaging work on parrot? How much
usage are the parrot packages getting? New upstream releases are
continuing, the most recent upstream release is 8.1.0, while the package
version in unstable is 6.6.0.

I'm happy to pick up the task of maintaining the parrot package again,
but I'm also wondering if we should consider removing it from Debian?
I'll also ask the upstream dev team what they think.

Thanks for any thoughts,
Allison