Package: debian-policy
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I understand what you're saying, and indeed trying to encode
> "Build-Depends-If-Available: foo" as "Build-Depends: foo | something"
> is a bad idea from the get-go. After all, foo can have three states
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 19:01, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The number of tools parsing build dependencies or doing dependency
> resolution is larger than you might expect.
Yeah, I can only imagine. And they're not all in one great big git
repo either! That's one reason I thought pushing it into the
archit
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
>...
> "Build-Depends-If-Available: foo" as "Build-Depends: foo | something"
> is a bad idea from the get-go. After all, foo can have three states on
> an architecture: installable, unavailable, or
> available-but-uninstallable-f
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 17:05, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The pragmatic solution is to list the 3 architectures where julia
> currently builds.
Okay, thanks for the hints, Adrian. That's what I'll do for now.
> The software engineering solution would be a dependency package
> julia-or-nothing that depen
Hi,
Le dim. 9 août 2020 à 18:16, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, this is currently the least bad
> thing to do.
>
if the current practices/software doesn't give enough leeway, perhaps we
should seek to improve the situation.
How would that fly if there we
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 03:22:20PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I'm maintaining mlpack. It is able to generate julia bindings, so on
> architectures in which julia is available I'd like to generate julia
> bindings, and this requires julia to be installed at build time. I've
> set up debian
On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 at 15:22:20 +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I could check which architectures have julia, and which have clang,
> and list them.
>
> Build-Depends: julia [amd64 arm64 i386 ...], clang [amd64 arm64 armel
> armhf i386 ...]
>
> but that makes my skin crawl because it is high
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 03:22:20PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I'm maintaining mlpack. It is able to generate julia bindings, so on
> architectures in which julia is available I'd like to generate julia
> bindings, and this requires julia to be installed at build time. I've
> set up debian
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