Incoming Debian freeze

[Dominique Dumont]

Hello Timo

Even if it's not yet announced, Debian should begin to freeze in a few weeks 
in preparation for next Debian release (usually in summer).

Unfortunately, most rakudo packages were auto-removed from testing, which 
means they won't be shipped with Debian 13 unless they are fixed.

As far as I understand, these packages are blocked for 2 problems:
- rakudo build hangs in some arches (#1086555)
- unpredictable pre-compilation results which leads to package conflicts

I don't know what can be done for the former issue.

For the latter, we could revert back to shipping only raku source in raku 
module (like perl5) and let raku do the pre-compilation at run time. 

The main drawback is that user will have to deal to raku pre-compilation cache 
even if user are not aware that such a cache exists.

When pre-compilation issues are solved, we will be able to switch back to 
shipping pre-compiled files.

Note that I do not wish to go back to the solution of doing pre-compilation at 
installation time. This is a waste of time since pre-compilation is not 
reproducible: the pre-compilation done at installation time has a good change 
of being ignored.

Thoughts ?

All the best

Dominique