[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.6

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

I took a quick glance at Julia 0.6:

Julia 0.6 requires utf8proc2 2.1.0, which only supports Unicode 9,
while unicode-data was recently updated to Unicde 10. I plan to
suggest to the Debian maintainer to provide versioned packages
(similar to llvm) and re-upload unicode-data-9.

The documentation was converted to Markdown and requires a few Julia
packages to build (see doc/REQUIRE). This seems like the perfect
opportunity to think about packaging Julia modules for Debian.

The OpenSSL relicensing to Apache 2.0 [1] appears to be far away, so
libgit2 will lack HTTPS support for the foreseeable future. I suggest
uploading Julia 0.6 to experimental instead at some point, even if it
will not support external packages for a long time.

ppc64, armhf and arm64 are now officially supported upstream [2].
Would you agree to unconditionally enabling the test suite on all
architectures? The test runner now prints a summary of failures at the
end including error outputs, which should simplify the analysis of
test failures on the autobuilders significantly.

Regards,
Peter

[1] https://license.openssl.org/
[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia#currently-supported-platforms