[Pkg-julia-devel] Removal of julia-factcheck

[Peter Colberg]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:49:59PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> I think those facts themselves should not warrant a removal of a package
> with no outstanding bug and popcon trending upwards.
> 
> I found factcheck very useful for generating tests for shared libraries.

Can you explain why the package is being installed at all?

We are currently not maintaining any Julia packages in Debian,
expecting users to install packages via Julia’s package manager.

I wonder why anyone would install the outdated julia-factcheck rather
than use Pkg.add(), given that there are no reverse dependencies.

> I don't use the package myself thus I'm OK with that, but I would also
> be OK with updating it to a newer upstream version.

Graham, what are your thoughts on maintaining Julia packages in Debian?

Regards,
Peter