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The current stable upstream version at the time of this writing is
5.6.0. There is currently work in progress on the next major
revision, although the specifications have yet to be finalised.
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It is anticipated that when Perl 6 is released it will initially be
packaged as <code class="systemitem">perl6</code>, install
the binary as <code class="filename">/usr/bin/perl6</code> and use different
directories for packaged modules to <code class="systemitem">perl</code>:
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This will allow Perl 5 and 6 packages and modules (which should be
packaged as <code class="systemitem">libfoo-bar-perl6</code>), to co-exist for as
long as required.
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At some stage in the future when Perl 6 is sufficiently mature, the
package naming may be reversed such that the <code class="systemitem">perl</code> package contains Perl 6 and the
current package becomes <code class="systemitem">perl5</code>.
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