[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#873408: Bug#873408: julia: Please update to llvm-toolchain 4.0 or, better, 5.0

[Graham Inggs]

On 20 November 2017 at 20:54, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
> It should be fine now with 4.0. Would be good if this could move to either
> unversioned llvm/clang (which defaults to 4.0 now) or to versioned 4.0. Bumping
> to serious as we want to remove 3.8 soon to reduce the high number of llvm
> versions that we currently ship.

Unfortunately julia 0.4.7 doesn't build with llvm/clang 4.0.
Julia 0.6.1 is available (#839668) but we are blocked by a lack of
support for https in libgit2 (#832798).
There is ongoing activity in the upstream PR, so we remain hopeful.

For now, julia can be removed from testing.