[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#776069: Bug#776069: Bug#776069: julia: 0.3.5 in experimental

[Viral Shah]

Given that Julia 0.3.x are largely bugfix releases - can't those make it
into Jessie?

I guess targeted bug fixes probably is much more restrictive.

-viral
On 24 Jan 2015 03:30, "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:

> Le vendredi 23 janvier 2015 à 10:54 -0500, Viral Shah a écrit :
> > I think it would be best to update to 0.3.5, or even 0.3.6 which will
> > be released in a few weeks.
> >
> >
> > Does the release policy allow us to update newer packages into
> > experimental?
>
> Yes it's possible to upload 0.3.5 to experimental. But note that, by
> definition, packages in experimental never end up in a release of
> Debian. So Debian Jessie will ship with julia 0.3.2. Only targeted
> important bugfixes are allowed to get into Jessie by now, not new
> upstream releases.
>
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