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...
$ *sudo apt-get install rakudo* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done rakudo is already the newest version (2015.11-2build1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. This is *way* out of date, unfortunately... $ *apt-cache show rakudo* Package: rakudo Priority: optional Section: universe/interpreters Installed-Size: 17523 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian Rakudo Maintainers <pkg-rakudo-devel@lists. alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 2015.11-2build1 Provides: perl6 Depends: moarvm (>= 2015.11), moarvm (<< 2015.12), nqp (= 2015.11-2), rakudo-lib (>= 2015.11-2build1), rakudo-lib (<< 2015.11-2build1.1~) Suggests: valgrind Filename: pool/universe/r/rakudo/rakudo_2015.11-2build1_all.deb Size: 2525470 MD5sum: 9d157b4125f1a4fdb28ad7e13e7543a3 SHA1: 9cd7182656dfd3cf71a1a5f0e0dfeee6ff10088e SHA256: c94888088bb6ebdbf99fe876398875a6f51dcfe190285a9d4c4ef41c344fdd83 Description-en: Perl 6 implementation on top of Moar virtual machine Rakudo Perl is a compiler that implements the Perl 6 specification and runs on top of several virtual machines. Debian rakudo package runs on top of MoarVM. . Perl 6 is a programming language, member of the Perl family. Like Perl 5, her world-famous big sister, Perl 6 intends to carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community and is currently being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. . valgrind package installation is suggested to debug issues with perl6-valgrind-m program. Description-md5: eab14223886cc39425a796041b2bf14c Homepage: http://rakudo.org/ Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu 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. Thank you! -- Prairie Nyx prairie...@gmail.com
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