Hi, Long story short. Julia debian package seriously lacks of volunteer to work on it and keep it up to date properly. Initially I planned to get this package to the latest 1.7.3 version and solve a bunch of bugs.
Then I discovered that the latest version downloads a million code snapshots that are specific to julia. I gave up halfway at nearly 16 patches named "no-download-xxx". And now all the XXX.jl standard libraries will not be downloaded. Then I just figure out it started to download XXX.jll . I roughly estimate that there will be eventually more than 50 patches named as no-download-xxx and more than 50 embedded julia-specific artifact. Julia itself has became a standalone binary file distribution and formed its own ecosystem. We should use upstream prebuilt binaries instead of trying to build on our own and trap ourselves in the BLAS/LAPACK ILP64 pitfalls. If no one is willing to save it ... I shall file an RM bug against src:julia . Without update, it build-depends on llvm-9, which is already removed from unstable. That means even if we stay at an old version, it's still a seriously broken package. In order to avoid wasting time, I suggest everyone think carefully when dealing with packages that will download a million files from internet during the build process, like bazel+tensorflow, julia, etc. I give up.
