[Pkg-julia-devel] Porting [Re: Julia 0.3.12]

[Graham Inggs]

On 3 November 2015 at 22:43, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 01:46:06PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> I'll probably need to re-base my patches against 0.3.12 anyway.
>
> If the porting is going to take a while, what do you think about
> uploading 0.3.12-1 now, and have any porting patches in 0.3.12-2?
> julia will have to pass NEW queue due to the julia-common package.

Porting to armhf is pretty much done, see bug #802583.
Julia 0.3.12-1 will go through binNEW, which is a quicker process than NEW.

> I have yet to try your experimental packages on armhf. One of the
> challenges seems to be openlibm, which fails to build on non-x86
> archs [1]. I will see if I can get openlibm to compile on armhf.

You can use libm on architectures where openlibm doesn't build, see
build-everywhere.diff in aforementioned bug.

> Is it possible to get access to porter boxes as a non-DM?

It seems possible:
https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/