Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

Dominique Dumont dod at debian.org
Mon Sep 1 11:59:50 UTC 2014


On Friday 29 August 2014 16:15:44 Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> Actually, it is. rakudo needs to use at runtime the specific nqp build used
> to build rakudo itself. If you update the nqp package (or just rebuilt it
> without any change) without rebuilding rakudo too, rakudo stops working and
> spews a bunch of "Missing or wrong version of dependency ..." errors. Hence
> the "=" dependency to make sure nqp and rakudo migrated to testing at the
> same time.

Since rakudo and nqp are so tighly coupled, I'm beginning to wonder what's the 
point of packaging separately nqp and rakudo...

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