[Pkg-julia-devel] Removal of julia-factcheck

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Peter,

2016-05-25 21:31 GMT+02:00 Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org>:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> I think it would be great if we carried Julia packages in Debian, however I
>> am not convinced it would be worth the effort.
>
> Then I think it would be best to drop julia-factcheck for the time being,
> rather than have an outdated package that neither of us is maintaining.

While I would happily keep it updated if some other package depended on
it, I agree that in the current situation dropping it does no harm.

> Balint, would you be fine with Pkg.add("FactCheck") for your use case?

No, because network access during build is a no-go for me, but I removed
the tests written in Julia thus I could drop all Julia-related dependencies.

> We can always reconsider maintaining Julia packages, e.g., if Julia
> 1.0 is released and we start seeing applications written in Julia
> that are interesting for Debian users. Of course we would want to
> automate the packaging as far as possible using a dh-julia helper.

Sure.

Cheers,
Balint