Thank you for all your hard work, Dominique! Do we have any Debian users on the mailing-list willing to step up?
Best Regards, Bill. > On Dec 2, 2023, at 07:01, Dominique Dumont <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello > > After 10 years of maintaining rakudo and it modules for Debian, I've never > really managed to learn Raku. > > Now, my work life has changed, I'm now a devops freelance and I no longer > have > the time and energy to maintain packages that I don't actually use. So I'm > stepping down from Debian Rakudo packaging team. > > Unfortunately, I was the last people active on packaging activities for > Rakudo > and Rakudo modules. This means that, unless someone steps up, Rakudo package > will not be updated for Debian and its derivatives distributions (Ubuntu, > Mint...) > > If needed, I will help with the maintenance of dh-raku and dh-make-raku and > to > sponsor packagers who are not Debian Developers. Please reach out to me if > you > need help packaging for Debian. (see also https://mentors.debian.net/) > > This last weeks I've tried to leave this project with packages in a good > shape. I've fixed some bugs in dh-raku [1] and dh-make-raku [2] and updated > some Raku modules (to debug dh-make-raku) > > Unfortunately, I've encountered yet another problem with raku precompilation > of raku-json-class. This is explained in a patch [3] I've tried on rakudo. > But > this patch is not enough. There's another mysterious precompilation error. > > I guess this problem should be discussed by my successor with Rakudo > developers at this github issue: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/5099 > > All the best > > Dod > > [1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dh-raku/index.html > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/perl6-team/dh-make-raku > [3] https://salsa.debian.org/perl6-team/rakudo/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/ > patches/fix-bin-source-time-compare > > >
