[Pkg-julia-devel] [SCM] Julia branch master updated. debian/0.3.11-1-20-gdbf6516

[Graham Inggs]

On 05/11/2015 11:44, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> It is however a bit painful to maintain such a list, and so far I have
> not yet encountered a situation in which the theoretical problem would
> bite. So at some point I decided to drop that mechanism.

I'm not understanding the theoretical problem, would you explain it please?

Lintian complains about the current method:
dh-exec-install-not-allowed-here.

> At the very least, I think you should add a comment in debian/control
> saying that one should keep the Depends: field of julia in sync with
> that list of symlinks. Otherwise NMUers, especially during transitions,
> could be confused.

This will also make backports more difficult.

On the subject of backports, is the versioned dependency on unicode-data 
(>= 8.0) required?  I built dsfmt, utf8proc and julia for armhf on 
Ubuntu Trusty, which only has unicode-data 6.3.0-2, and it seemed OK.

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https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-julia/utf8proc.git/tree/debian/control#n5