[Pkg-parrot-devel] New version of parrot package is in mentors

[Kyle Willmon]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:39:15PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> I'll let you decide whether to use Kyle's package or mine. Or may be, a blend 
> of the 2.

Looking at the two packages, it appears Dominique's includes everything
that mine does and more. Therefore, I suggest the use of his package.

> > BTW, the next stable release of Parrot is in two weeks.
> 
> Considering that a new libparrot-3.x.y package will be created, the pacakage 
> of the next parrot release will have to be reviewed manually by Debian FTP 
> masters. 

Is it truly necessary for these packages to include the full version
number as opposed to simply the major release number (or even just
excluding the final part and using libparrot-3.x). If either of these is
possible, it would create a more stable and maintainable package which
would not require manual review quite so often.

As a side note, Rakudo and Rakudo star both have expected releases this
month as well. It is probably worth knowing the version of Parrot that
these releases will require. I believe that users would greatly benefit
from a rakudo-star package in Debian and this will mean a dependency on
an updated version of Parrot.

-
Kyle Willmon