Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Buon giorno!
>
>>> IMO, that shouldn’t be the case.
> If it was me it was probably an oversight, I’m sorry about that.

No problem! It appeared also in the manual so I fixed it

>
>>> Can we either extract the Julia package name from metadata that’s in
>>> the package itself (?), or otherwise pass it to all the phases via
>>> ‘julia-build-system’?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.  If I understand the toml format correctly,
> “name=.*” is guaranteed to be on a line on its own, so that looks
> safe.

exactly

>
> To be on the safe side, we can add a #:julia-package-name parameter to
> the build system; it would default to #f, in which case the name is
> extracted from the toml file.
>
Done, I attached the updated patch set!