Ryan Niebur wrote:
please keep the ITP bug CCed.
Apologies, was replying from my phone.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:45:07PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: they're actually in unstable. anyways, I need the unreleased versions of parrot (more recent than 1.5.0 even). I'm using r40789 from SVN locally.
Now that I have real internet access again... the automated notice was that 1.4 packages were migrated to "testing". So, yes, not relevant to what you're looking for.
We only package the stable releases because the intermediate monthly releases are for development testing, not for broader use. I'm willing to package some monthly releases between now and Parrot's next stable release (2.0 in January), just to be absolutely sure that Rakudo packages can enter unstable at the same time as Parrot 2.0. As long as it's understood that the experimental packages don't supersede the 1.4 packages in unstable/testing, and won't ever migrate to unstable or testing. They're just throwaway packages for Rakudo testing.
But, it really boils down to a question of whether you have Rakudo users testing Debian experimental. If not, then it makes more sense to put the intermediate packages up on alioth.
Allison