[Pkg-julia-devel] julia 0.5.0-rc0

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

Julia 0.5.0-rc0 was tagged recently [1]. I began packaging with the goal
to eventually upload to experimental. A handful of tests are failing,
so for now the package only builds with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. I
will give the test suite another try once -rc1 has been released.

More importantly, the package manager using libgit2 is broken:

julia> Pkg.init()
INFO: Initializing package repository /home/peter/.julia/v0.5
INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:Net, Failed to resolve address for https: Name or service not known)
 in init() at ./pkg/pkg.jl:70


In terms of Debian packaging, libjulia is now installed to the
system-wide libdir for embedding by other programs, along with
corresponding header files. I have filed an issue [2] to install
only headers that are actually needed to link to libjulia.so.

(Note that I postponed "gbp dch" until an actual upload.)

Regards,
Peter

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17418#issuecomment-235382367
[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17657