By a link, do you mean to the github repo for people to visit if something
is wrong with their package listing? It seems to me a short sentence/link
at the top of pkg.julialang.org would be best for that.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Iain Dunning <iaindunn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Please do file an issue! And if you have a suggestion for where to put a
> link, please let me know - I've never been able to figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
> Iain
>
>
> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 10:29:54 AM UTC-5, Josh Langsfeld wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the info. Unstated in my question was that I didn't know where
>> to go to pursue this so I'm glad you pointed me to the right place.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 10:05:42 AM UTC-5, Avik Sengupta wrote:
>>>
>>> The pkg.julialang.org checks slightly different things from the travis
>>> tests. In particular, while the travis tests run only when there is a
>>> change to the package code, these tests run nightly, and catch any package
>>> breakage due to changes to Julia, or any of your package dependencies.
>>>
>>> If your dependencies are easy to install on linux, then I'm sure Ian
>>> will be happy to discuss installing them on the server. Alternatively, some
>>> packages can be marked "Untestable" rather than broken, if their
>>> dependencies are difficult to acquire. Packages with proprietary commercial
>>> dependencies are marked this way, for example.  Either way, you can raise
>>> an issue at https://github.com/IainNZ/PackageEvaluator.jl/issues to
>>> discuss the specifics for your package.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> -
>>> Avik
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:51:16 UTC, Josh Langsfeld wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is a fairly minor topic, but thought I'd bring it up anyway. I
>>>> noticed the pkg.julialang.org listings generate pass/fail info for the
>>>> package tests by running the tests locally rather than hooking into Travis.
>>>> This is a problem for me as my Travis script involves installing
>>>> dependencies, and so it will always list as "Tests fail" as things
>>>> currently are.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to have it display the travis build status instead?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Josh
>>>>
>>>

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