Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-09-01 Thread Marc Chantreux
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 03:20:50PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2014 14:30:16 Marc Chantreux wrote: > > afaik: nqp don't need rakudo and could be used to build backends for > > other languages. right? > Of course this is not ideal, but it may be better than the current

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-09-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 01 September 2014 14:30:16 Marc Chantreux wrote: > afaik: nqp don't need rakudo and could be used to build backends for > other languages. right? ok. Then rakudo can "provides:" nqp. Of course this is not ideal, but it may be better than the current situation. -- https://github.co

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-09-01 Thread Marc Chantreux
hello, On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:59:50PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Since rakudo and nqp are so tighly coupled, I'm beginning to wonder what's > the > point of packaging separately nqp and rakudo... afaik: nqp don't need rakudo and could be used to build backends for other languages. ri

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-09-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 29 August 2014 16:15:44 Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Actually, it is. rakudo needs to use at runtime the specific nqp build used > to build rakudo itself. If you update the nqp package (or just rebuilt it > without any change) without rebuilding rakudo too, rakudo stops working and > spews

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-08-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:15:44PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On ven, ago 29, 2014 at 11:17:18 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > > Ack. I'm going to relax the vesrioned dependency on nqp. I don't think that > > a > > strict dependency is necessary. > > Actually, it is. rakudo needs t

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-08-29 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On ven, ago 29, 2014 at 11:17:18 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > Ack. I'm going to relax the vesrioned dependency on nqp. I don't think that a > strict dependency is necessary. Actually, it is. rakudo needs to use at runtime the specific nqp build used to build rakudo itself. If you update th

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
Ack. I'm going to relax the vesrioned dependency on nqp. I don't think that a strict dependency is necessary. -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ

Bug#749500: rakudo: not installable in sid

2014-08-29 Thread Michał Mirosław
rakudo =2014.07-1 depends on nqp =2014.07-1, but only nqp =2014.07-2 is available. root@qmqm:~# apt-cache policy rakudo rakudo: Zainstalowana: 2014.03.01-1+b1 Kandydująca: 2014.07-1 Tabela wersji: 2014.07-1 0 700 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages *** 2