[Pkg-julia-devel] DM application of Peter Colberg

Graham Inggs ginggs at debian.org
Mon Jun 20 21:13:34 UTC 2016


On 20 June 2016 at 21:59, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> I am in favour of transitioning now. Would you like me to prepare the
> updates of openlibm and openspecfun? It seems a good idea if both of
> us are familiar with all packages of the team.

Please go ahead if you want to.  One thing I wanted to look at in
openspecfun was whether we should switch from libm to openlibm (where
available).

> Regarding julia 0.4.6, I have left one task for the future: building
> with the PIE and BINDNOW hardening flags as flagged by lintian. This
> fails during linking of the Rmath library, which is compiled both with
> -fPIC and -fPIE when adding hardening=+all to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.

I'd like to fix bug #748573 in the next upload, if possible.
Does the patch in my mail to the BTS on May 4 seem OK?
I was hoping for a response from Michael Tautschnig.

> For julia 0.5, depending on time constraints, I would like to package
> the -rc versions for experimental, with the goal to upstream as many
> of our fixes as possible before julia 0.5.0 is released.

Sounds good to me.



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