How can I help keep the Perl 6 "rakudo" package updated?

[Dominique Dumont]

On mercredi 9 mai 2018 15:45:44 CEST Prairie Nyx wrote:
> I work with Perl 6 and we are hoping to help maintain the *latest* release
> of the Perl 6 compiler for the Linux community as much as possible...

Thanks, we welcome all the help we can get.

> $ *sudo apt-get install rakudo*
[..]
> rakudo is already the newest version (2015.11-2build1).

This is quite old. Older that the rakudo version available on Debian/stable. 
Looks like you're running on Ubuntu Xenial. 

Bionic has rakudo 2018.03. 

Debian/unstable and Ubuntu/Cosmic have the latest version.

May be you should upgrade Ubuntu to either the latest release of the 
development version (like I run Debian/unstable).

This way you would get the latest version.

> Is there anything I can do to help maintain this package for the greater
> good and keep the lastest release available?  Perl 6 is an evolving
> implementation, but it's really important to keep the latest versions
> available as things progress and I would like to offer some help, perhaps.

Yes, we still have a lot of work to provide Perl6 modules in Debian package. 
All work done for Debian is propagated to Ubuntu.

See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianRakudoGroup
and https://wiki.debian.org/Perl6PreCompProposal

All the best



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