[Pkg-parrot-devel] plans for parrot packaging

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 04:08:28am -0400, Allison Randal wrote:
> Hi all,

Hello!

> 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.

FWIW, I tried a test removal of the parrot source package from the ftp-master
mirror to check reverse dependencies, and it seems there are none, so removing
the package shouldn't require much work.

On the other hand if there still is interest in the packages (e.g. from you)
I don't see why it should be removed. But yes, personally my interest was in
using it for the rakudo packages (and I'm not much involved in that anymore).

Cheers
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