[Pkg-julia-devel] Welcome to the Debian Julia Team!

[Viral Shah]

Thanks Sebastien! This at least gets us started.

In December, we expect to have a 0.1 release, and we can start following the releases from there on.

-viral



On 20-Nov-2012, at 11:09 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As you may have seen, I have uploaded a first version of the Julia
> package to Debian. It is now awaiting approval by FTPmasters. The
> package is based on a commit from Nov. 2, 2012. The next step is to
> integrate the relevant patches in upstream git (and this has already
> started thanks to the file layout reorganization), and to package a more
> recent version.
> 
> In order to access the git repository for Debian packaging, you should
> create an account on Alioth, and request to join the pkg-julia project
> there:
> 
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-julia/
> 
> More info about Alioth:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/
> http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH
> 
> The Julia package is maintained with git-buildpackage (with the
> --pristine-tar option). Documentation is in the package itself:
> 
> file:///usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/index.html
> 
> Once I have accepted you in the pkg-julia Alioth project, you can clone
> the repository with:
> 
> gbp-clone ssh://login@git.debian.org/git/pkg-julia/julia.git
> 
> The orig tarball has been created with the "get-orig-source" rule of
> debian/rules.
> 
> The debian/copyright file follows the machine-readable 1.0 format:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> 
> Patches are maintained with quilt, and their headers follow DEP3:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html#quiltrc
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
> 
> In particular, patches that need to be applied upstream are marked
> "Forwarded: no". The patches that are not meant to be forwarded upstream
> are marked "Forwarded: not-needed".
> 
> Finally, some important general pointers to Debian packaging, in case it
> is useful:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ (good up-to-date tutorial)
> 
> Don't hesitate to ask if you have more questions about what I did or
> about packaging in general.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> .''`.    Sébastien Villemot
> : :' :    Debian Developer
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