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

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:44:31AM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 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.

I will add a longer explanation to debian/control and julia.links.

> There is also another issue. For example, if libarpack were
> multiarchified some day, the Julia package would break silently. This is
> not a big issue, since that sort of thing rarely happens, but must be
> kept in mind.

I am aware this issue. I don’t like the absolute symlinks either, and
libopenblas and libarpack need to be watched closely not to miss their
transition to multi-arch. Maybe a solution is to be proactive and help
these libraries transition sooner rather than later, but I have not
looked into it yet.

As mentioned in the reply to Graham, I would prefer path-less sonames
in build_h.jl, but at present this requires patching a larger chunk of
base to use libname constants intead of hard-coded :libname symbols.

Peter