[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia entered Debian!

[Jeff Bezanson]

Hi Sebastien,

Let me reiterate Viral's thanks for your work.

This may be the first time arm or powerpc builds have even been
attempted, so I would definitely not expect them to work. These may
take significant effort on our part, particularly for the big endian
case. I'm willing to do it, but at some point I may need to connect to
a machine with the relevant hardware.

It's certainly a goal to have an official versioned release by
February, and this will only provide extra motivation.


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot
<sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 13:47 +0530, Viral Shah a écrit :
>
>> We should certainly do a new version, perhaps try to do once a month,
>> until v0.1 is released. Let's try to aim for and fix the build issues
>> on arm and powerpc, if possible before you make the next upload. Could
>> you file these as issues on github?
>
> A monthly upload seems a good rhythm. When I investigate the arm and
> powerpc issues, I’ll file issues on github
>
>> Are you planning to create debian packages for julia packages in the
>> near future? We need to strike the right balance for apt installed
>> packages, and julia's Pkg installed packages.
>
> Not in the short term, because I have other priorities (helping with the
> Debian Wheezy release, improving the Julia core package), and also
> because the pkg system is not yet ready for system-wide installation
> (issue #1692).
>
> But in the medium term I definitely hope that we will find a consensus
> for the best way of incorporating Julia packages into GNU/Linux distros,
> so that this work can start in Debian.
>
>> Are there any debian/ubuntu deadlines that we should keep in mind when
>> planning a julia release?
>
> Concerning Debian, the next deadline is far away. We are finishing the
> release cycle of Wheezy, and Julia will not be part of that release
> because it missed the deadline (June 30). The deadline for the Jessie
> release should be somewhere in mid-2014, so there is plenty of time.
>
> Concerning Ubuntu, the next release (Raring Ringtail) is expected in
> April 2013. The automatic import from Debian will stop on Feb 14, 2013.
> So basically whatever Julia package is in Debian unstable by that date
> will be part of Ubuntu Raring. We should therefore plan a little in
> advance to decide which commit version to upload in Debian for that
> deadline (unless of course 0.1 is out!).
>
> Cheers,
>
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