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

[Graham Inggs]

On 21 September 2016 at 07:05, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> Looks like it was just in time for the Yakkety beta freeze.

The freeze is only really for packages that go on the Ubuntu
installation media.  We can upload bugfixes for universe packages
right up until release.

> 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].

Excuse my naïveté, but why can't we use an unencrypted transport, as
in previous versions?

> 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?

Sounds good to me.