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

[Elliot Saba]

Thank you for this, Sébastien!
-E


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Viral Shah <viral at mayin.org> wrote:

> 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
> > `. `'     http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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