[Pkg-julia-devel] backporting experimental to stretch

[Boylan, Ross]

I'm interested in using the latest julia, but would prefer to keep my system at stretch.   So I thought I'd take the latest source (which is assume is what's in experimental) and try building it in my environment.

After using stretch-backports for a number of packages I appear to have the build-deps mostly in hand.  2 packages are near misses (but one of them is llvm), and one's just missing.
My guess is  that if I just relax the requirements in the control file, it will probably be good enough.

Does that seem reasonable?

DETAILS:
The exceptions are, running in the debian directory from https://salsa.debian.org/julia-team/julia.git
$ dpkg-checkbuilddeps control
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: llvm-6.0-dev (>= 1:6.0.1-11) libutf8proc-dev (>= 2.1.1) texlive-plain-generic
$ dpkg -l llvm-6.0-dev libutf8proc-dev texlive-plain-generic
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-==============================================================================
ii  libutf8proc-dev:amd64                2.0.2-1                 amd64                   C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data (development files)
ii  llvm-6.0-dev                         1:6.0-1~bpo9+1          amd64                   Modular compiler and toolchain technologies, libraries and headers
dpkg-query: no packages found matching texlive-plain-generic

I'm not sure what's up with texlive-plain-generic; maybe split out post-stretch?  If it was not stable enough for release, I suppose I need to get it.

Thanks, and thanks for making julia available on Debian.
Ross