Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:15:44PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On ven, ago 29, 2014 at 11:17:18 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > 
> > Ack. I'm going to relax the vesrioned dependency on nqp. I don't think that a 
> > strict dependency is necessary.
> 
> Actually, it is. rakudo needs to use at runtime the specific nqp build used to
> build rakudo itself. 
> [...]
> I don't know if anything changed, but IIRC the upstream developers had no plan
> on fixing this (in fact they didn't really consider it a bug at all, although
> they agreed it was annoying). One of the many joys of maintaining rakudo :/

The Rakudo and NQP developers do consider this a bug... it's just one that we 
cannot easily fix at the moment.  For example, Parrot's underlying design
requires the strong version linkages in its downstream components.

Pm