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

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Peter,

2016-05-20 23:13 GMT+02:00 Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org>:
> 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?

I have it as a build-dependency for an internal package. This is a perfectly
valid use of Debian packages which are leaf packages in the archive.

>
> 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 I wonder why anyone would install the outdated julia-factcheck rather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.

It works perfectly for the simple use case. :-)

Cheers,
Balint

>
>> 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