[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#802583: julia: please build everywhere

[Peter Colberg]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:19:57PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 octobre 2015 à 14:08 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit :
> 
> > I would be happy to join the Debian Julia Team and make the changes in
> > an experimental branch on git myself, and to assist with maintenance
> > of Julia and related packages in Debian on an ongoing basis.
> 
> This is actually good news, because I don't have the time anymore to
> care about the julia package. Peter Colberg has also expressed interest
> in maintaining the package.
> 
> See these recent threads: 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-julia-devel/Week-of-Mon-20151012/000613.html
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-julia-devel/Week-of-Mon-20151019/000624.html
> 
> You should probably subscribe to this list, and request to join the
> alioth project for getting access to the git repository.
> 
> Welcome!

That is indeed good news!

Getting Julia 0.4.0 to build on x86_64 alone using Debian packages for
dependencies is not as easy as I first assumed. So far the test suite
fails the backtrace test. One dependency is missing in Debian (PCRE2),
and one will have to be updated (suitesparse).

Since it is not clear yet what the new orig tarball will contain, I am
going to push to a personal branch (pc/master) in pkg-julia/julia.git,
which allows overwriting until good for merging into master.

Regards,
Peter