[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.6

[Graham Inggs]

On 7 July 2017 at 20:24, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> Looks good. Any reason not to submit unicode10.patch upstream?

Great, I will upload tomorrow.  Not that I can think of, please go
ahead it you want.

On 7 July 2017 at 20:44, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> By the way, since we are discussing source packages, what do you think
> of having a proper source package and -dev binary package (with static
> library only) for Julia’s fork of libuv? That would allow us to use
> the upstream julia tarball (maybe with "Files-Excluded: doc/*" in
> debian/copyright for automatic repacking using uscan), and avoid
> patching deps/libuv.mk (which was modified again in julia 0.6).

No objections here.  FTP masters might need convincing though.
I suggest filing an ITP bug (with 'X-Debbugs-CC:
debian-devel at lists.debian.org' pseudo-header) and seeing what the
response is.

On 7 July 2017 at 21:05, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> On the other hand, lintian mentions "testsuite-autopkgtest-missing"
> recently of severity wishlist. If module packages use autopkgtest
> instead of build tests, a Build-Depends on julia is not needed.

That could work, then module packages could recommend julia instead of
depending on it.