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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 09/12/2015 13:35, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> 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.
>
This is a clever solution :)
You can report a bug on the package in testing/unstable to inform our users.

Sylvestre