Stepping down from rakudo packaging for Debian
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
How can I check the content of a pre-compiled file ?
Hi I'm facing a problem [1] while packaging Raku modules for Debian. In summary, raku-json-marshal and raku-json-unmarshal packages both containt the same precompiled file. I'm trying to figure out what went wrong. How can I check what's inside this file ? (Strings is a bit unwieldy in this case...) All the best Dominique [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019579 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019687
Re: Perl6 NCurses module under Arch: libncursesw.so.6
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:27:25 CEST mark carter wrote: > I'm running: > This is Rakudo version 2017.01 built on MoarVM version 2017.01 > implementing Perl 6.c. > under Arch. > > When I do > $perl6 starfield.pl6 > I get: > Cannot locate native library 'libncursesw.so.5': libncursesw.so.5: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > That is because version 6 of the ncurses library is installed, rather > than 5. You should be able to install ncurses 5 on arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncurses5-compat-libs/ HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Re: Your thoughts on Padre?
[ sorry, I'm late on my mails.. ] On Monday, 27 February 2017 18:23:19 CET Luca Ferrari wrote: > please note that at least in Ubuntu Padre is shipped as version 1 > while 1.01 is available. I'm afraidr that won't last. Due to the many bugs (debuggger test don't work with recent perl), and lack of stability (random crashes), I've given up on maintaining padre for Debian last year and requested its removal from Debian. Since Ubuntu uses padre Debian package, I'm afraid that padre will not be shipped on Ubuntu in the next future. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Re: Your thoughts on Padre?
On Monday, 27 February 2017 18:23:19 CET Luca Ferrari wrote: > please note that at least in Ubuntu Padre is shipped as version 1 > while 1.01 is available. That won't last. Ubuntu ships Debian packages. Due to the many bugs (debuggger never worked), and lack of stability (random crashes), I've given up on maintaining padre for Debian last year and requested its removal. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Re: Helping Perl 6: a complete dev environment
On Thursday 28 April 2016 16:52:27 Jovan Trujillo wrote: > I see Padre has hooks for running Perl 6 and even parrot code. Unfortunately, Padre project is mostly dead. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Re: Bug or PEBCAK?
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:42:38 Parrot Raiser wrote: > probing whether your compiler thinks that it is gcc Can't compile > simple gcc probe, so something is badly wrong at build/probe.pm line > 92. Looks like probe.pm cannot find gcc when trying to compile a small program. HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
