[Pkg-julia-devel] build errors again

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Norbert

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 22:05, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:
> I am not sure how far we want to try to support archs that upstream
> doesn't support ...

Per upstream's supported platforms [1]:

x86-64 (64-bit) Tier 1
i686 (32-bit) Tier 1
Nvidia PTX (64-bit) Tier 1
AMD GPUs (64-bit) Tier 3
ARMv8 (64-bit) Tier 1
ARMv7 (32-bit) Tier 3
PowerPC (64-bit) Tier 3

We used to have builds on armhf and ppc64el, but upstream's support on
those architectures has been downgraded to

Tier 3: Julia may or may not build. If it does, it is unlikely to pass
tests. Binaries may be available in some cases. When they are, they
should be considered experimental. Ongoing support is dependent on
community efforts.

The binaries for these architectures were removed from testing so they
should not block migration now.

It would be nice to get the autopkgtests working again [2], for the
architectures where we do build.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://julialang.org/downloads/#currently_supported_platforms
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/julia-team/julia/-/commit/c7903de3768bcb2a234778179ce3a88c3e3fda50