[Pkg-julia-devel] Post Buster Plan for Julia Package Maintainance

[Mo Zhou]

Hi everyone,

The non-LTS releases of Julia lack support for some architectures such
as ppc64el. That means if we upload the non-LTS version to unstable,
the package will never migrate unless we remove these architectures.
That would be bad.

So my plan for the post-Buster stage is:

* Keep updating the LTS verion in unstable (currently 1.0.X)
* Only upload non-LTS version to experimental (currently 1.Y.Z)

For example, the upcoming LTS release 1.0.4 will enter unstable after
the Buster release. The non-LTS release 1.2.0 will be uploaded to
experiemental soon after the release, but will never enter unstable.

That said, we can re-consider about the plan if the non-LTS version
well-supported minority architectures such as ppc64el.

Apart from that, the LTS version will continue to ship with an embedded
LLVM-6. The non-LTS branch should be able to migrate to use system
LLVM-7 soon.

Best,
Mo