[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#803644: fixed in julia 0.4.2-1

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 09/12/15 19:30, Peter Colberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 12:51:15PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 08/12/15 16:54, Peter Colberg wrote:
>>> As an alternative to not having Julia 0.4 in Debian at all, would you
>>> agree to the Julia team reuploading the LLVM 3.3 package to unstable
>>> under our maintainership?
>>
>> Sorry but that isn't an option.
>>
>> What you can do is keep julia in unstable using llvm 3.8, and that will migrate
>> to testing once 3.8 is officially released and migrates to testing.
> 
> Emilio, thanks for your feedback. I see two options going forward then:
> 
> Either we let julia depend on llvm 3.8, which will delay the migration
> to testing until next spring. This is basically equivalent to skipping
> Julia 0.4 entirely.
> 
> Or we let julia depend on llvm 3.7 and accept the performance hit on
> amd64.

You can do the latter, and upload a version that uses llvm 3.8 to experimental
so testing/sid users can try that if necessary.

Cheers,
Emilio