[Pkg-julia-devel] Packaging Julia packages [was: Bug#802207: RFP: julia-gadfly]

[Sébastien Villemot]

[dropping Jonas and the RFP bug from the reply]	

Le dimanche 18 octobre 2015 à 19:22 -0400, Peter Colberg a écrit :

> Regarding julia-gadfly, so far no Julia packages have been packaged
> for Debian, relying on users to install packages using Pkg.add().

Well, this is not totally true. See:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/julia-factcheck

By the way, this package would need a new upload, because it currently
lags several versions behind upstream. My understanding is that Balint
(the current maintainer) no longer has time to care about Julia.

> @Sébastien: What are your thoughts on packaging Julia packages?

See this thread for some background: 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-julia-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140721/000329.html

See also this issue (and the issues that are referenced in it):
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1692

The patch debian/patches/unversioned-system-load-path.patch in the
julia package is also related to this (by simplifying the load path for
Julia packages).

Some time ago I started a common packaging infrastructure (to be
incorporated in a package called julia-pkg-dev). It is unfinished work,
but I could send you the current state of this effort if you are
interested.

For the time being, my impression is however that packaging julia 0.4
is more urgent.

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