Re: [PATCH] Update Julia to 0.4.2.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
>
>> Unfortunately, the build for “julia” is not reproducible.  I haven’t yet
>> investigated what might be the cause and I don’t know yet how large the
>> difference between two builds is.
>
> Julia is not mentioned in packages.yml in
> <git://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git>, so I guess nobody has
> looked at it yet.
>
> When you have diff or Diffoscope info about the differences, please open
> a bug.

There are some obvious things (such as embedding a timestamp in a
version string).  Maybe changing those things would be sufficient
already.  I’ll play with this first.  If I cannot find anything else
I’ll report a bug as soon as I have something to share.

>> From 034cdddd452c036d5155a56da35d20e97d0e9f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:22:18 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add libuv-julia.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/julia.scm (libuv-julia): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +(define-public libuv-julia
>
> Perhaps this can be kept private?  If not, I would suggest changing the
> ‘synopsis’ field as well.

I made it private.

> Thanks, and sorry for the delay!

No problem.  (There’s no urgency.) Thanks for the review!

~~ Ricardo