[Pkg-julia-devel] Up-to-date Julia?

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Johann

On 19 April 2018 at 15:18, Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Is there any chance of more up-to-date packages of Julia?  The present
> package is very old.

We are currently blocked by the lack of TLS support in Debian's
libgit2, see [1].

Quoting Peter from that bug:
> The best you can do at this point is follow the status of the most
> recent pull request [2] for inclusion of an alternative TLS backend
> based on mbedTLS into libgit2.

There is recent activity in that pull request.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839668
[2] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/4173