[Pkg-julia-devel] Packaging policy for Julia related packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Dear Balint,

Le jeudi 24 juillet 2014 à 12:18 +0200, Bálint Réczey a écrit :

> I would like to package FactCheck [1] for Julia, to make it available
> during building an other package.
> Is there a policy for such additional modules?
> I would be interested primarily in the naming conventions and file
> system locations to use.
> 
> I chose the factcheck-julia name in my package but I don't want to
> send an ITP before checking it with you.

I think it's too early for packaging Julia-related packages. No such
package is yet in Debian, so there is no policy for those.

The most urgent task is rather to have Julia 0.3 in good shape for the
release of Debian Jessie. The main problem is that Jessie will not
contain LLVM 3.3 (see #753971). So the main task is to make Julia 0.3
work with either LLVM 3.4 or 3.5.

Then, after the release of Jessie, we can think of packaging
Julia-related packages. The first step would be to create a helper
called julia-pkg-dev, similar to octave-pkg-dev (I have a skeleton for
it). Then to package the most popular packages (PlPlot, Gadfly, …).

Also note that upstream is not very enthusiast at the idea of having
Debian distributing Julia packages, but I'm sure we will find a
solution. I expect the Debian packages to be called julia-$foo (so yours
would be called julia-factcheck (this is a convention similar to Octave
packages). And files will be installed
under /usr/share/julia/site/$VERSION, which is already in LOAD_PATH).

So please don't rush with Factcheck.jl, and please wait a little until
things settle. You are of course more than welcome to join the Debian
Julia Team and help with the plan outlined above.

Best,

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