Julia support for LLVM 3.4 is only experimental and we will probably go
directly to 3.5.

Is it an option to include 3.3 in the Julia package in that case?

-viral
On 6 Jul 2014 23:49, "Sylvestre Ledru" <sylves...@debian.org> wrote:

> On 07/07/2014 00:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Le dimanche 06 juillet 2014 à 23:55 +0200, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> >
> >
> >> Le dimanche 06 juillet 2014 à 19:39 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> >>> Source: julia
> >>> Severity: important
> >>> I would like to remove llvm-toolchain-3.3 from the archive ASAP.
> >>> Could you switch to llvm-3.4-dev?
> >> Unfortunately upstream does not officially support LLVM 3.4 yet, not
> >> even for the latest development sources (it seems to compile, but there
> >> are issues, like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6369 ). For
> >> the current stable release (0.2) that is in sid, it is even worse, since
> >> julia FTBFS due to LLVM API changes.
> >>
> >> So at the very least I have to package a development snapshot. I need to
> >> get several new build dependencies through NEW, so it will take some
> >> time. Hopefully that will be done before the jessie freeze.
> > Looking at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6757, it seems that
> > even the next major release of Julia (0.3) will still require LLVM 3.3
> > to be fully functional.
> >
> > Would that be acceptable for you to ship LLVM 3.3 in Jessie?
> >
> Not really ... I am planning to ship with llvm 3.4 & 3.5.
> I don't want to third instance just for a single package.
>
> Sylvestre
>
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