Hi Simon, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, > > First, I am not convinced that upgrade Julia from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 is > something to do now; especially when the branch is “frozen”. Using > patches #52117 [1], all failures are fixed for 1.6.3. > > 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52117 > > > Here a rough attempt which replaces the source of 1.6.3 by 1.6.4 and > many tests are deeply broken (broken precompile is not a good sign, at > all ;-)). Well, it seems expected regarding the complexity of the Julia > stack. :-) > > Therefore, the upgrade requires various other upgrades elsewhere and > probably some fixes with couple of patches. As it had been for previous > Julia upgrades. :-) > > Then, using this upgraded julia@1.6.4, there is a high probability that > many julia-* packages would be broken too and thus they would require > fixes. > > IMHO, if we want a working Julia in the delay for the merge, the best > seems to just apply patch#52117 and let this Julia upgrade for another > round. For what my opinion is here. :-) Seems I had not answered here; thanks for attempting my suggestion! It seems you were right that Julia (even for a patch version bump) is picky. It'll have to be resolved on core-updates :-). Thanks, Maxim