[Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Ian Jackson]

Graham Inggs writes ("Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"):
> On 2018/11/21 16:11, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > I have not seen a real explanation why it needs to be this and exactly
> > this way.  This setup was explained as either
> > - a workaround for a bug,
> > - a way to get stacktraces from users or
> > - a way to make autopkgtest run.
> 
> Stripping sys.so breaks one of Julia's language features, which is the 
> ability to  trace into its standard library.  An example [1] is found in 
> the documentation.

This seems like a good reason to me to override the lintian warning.

In any case, please can we have the package ACCEPTed and bugs filed so
that we can discuss this in the BTS ?

Ian.

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