[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.3.12

[Graham Inggs]

On 29 October 2015 at 21:57, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> Since recently Julia 0.3.12 has been released, I wonder if it is a good
> idea to package that version first, while Julia 0.4.0 is awaiting the
> PCRE2 package.

Sounds good to me.

> A significant fraction of the improvements that I plan for the julia
> package can be integrated in the 0.3 package: building against the new
> packages juliadoc (done), dsfmt (done) and utf8proc (todo), fixing the
> parallel build, moving Base into an arch-indep package, and fixing
> lintian warnings.

How will the new packages above affect the orig.tar.xz?
If we generate an orig.tar.xz for 0.3.12 now that includes dsfmt and
utf8proc, will we be able to patch it later to use the new packages?
Or is it better to wait until the new packages have cleared NEW?
I think having a two different orig.tar.xz for 0.3.12 will be difficult.

> This would also keep the differences to the 0.4 packaging to a minimum
> given that Graham is porting the 0.3 package to non-x86 architectures.

I'll push my porting changes to the julia git shortly.