[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.3.12

Peter Colberg peter at colberg.org
Tue Nov 3 20:15:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:01:44PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Isn't this just going to make things unecessarily difficult for us and
> derivatives to bootstrap julia?
> Do we really need to 'generate utf8proc_data.c' for every build and on
> every architecture?
> I think a custom target in debian/rules and a comment should be sufficient.

Indeed, I did not consider bootstrapping on Debian derivatives.

For now I have dropped the generation of utf8proc_data.c, which is
really not needed for the Debian packaging. Ideally, one could
select a build profile which performs this additional check.

dpkg supports build profiles [1] since version 1.17.14, but none
of the allowed profiles is applicable to this case. In particular,
the build profile would have to be inclusive (<check>) rather than
exclusive (<!nocheck>), since it should be activated when building
manually and deactivated when building automatically with buildd.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec

If you have no further concerns, utf8proc is ready for upload.

Regards,
Peter



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