[Pkg-julia-devel] openlibm 0.5.4-1 and julia 0.4.7-1

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:03:10AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> I have synced these into Ubuntu Yakkety.
> Once Yakkety is released, I intend backporting Julia 0.4.7-1 (or
> whichever Yakkety releases with) for Ubuntu Xenial LTS.

Looks like it was just in time for the Yakkety beta freeze.

Julia 0.5.0 was released yesterday, but we won't be able to upload it
for a while due to the current lack of TLS support in libgit2 [1, 2].

I suggest to wait until the stretch freeze and then package Julia
0.5.* for experimental. This allows us to package a potential 0.4.8 in
between without messing up the order in the "upstream" branch. Once
stretch is released, 0.5.* can be backported easily given that stretch
will ship with llvm-3.9. Would you consider this a reasonable plan?

Regards,
Peter

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17661
[2] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3462