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[RFC] Needs Maintainer: Julia
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Repo: R1510
Homepage: https://julialang.org/

As part of a sweeping effort I am doing to reduce outdated package count, begin regularly enforcing maintainership file inclusion in old(er) repos, and increase the likelihood of a package having a maintainer (should it be required, outside of those being handled by Solus Staff, this task is being created to effectively "notify" the current maintainer of the package that it needs to be updated or modified to indicate its maintainership and ensure it is regularly maintained. In the event there is no specific maintainer, either one may be specified that has regularly updated it in the past, or this task shall also be considered an RFC for a new maintainer.

During the patch submission process, the MAINTAINERS.md file should be included if it is not already, and have the following content (replace REPLACEME with the correct value):

Without a dedicated maintainer julia is difficult for maintain and we will encourage users to install it directly from upstream

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Could juliaup be an alternative? https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup

This repository contains a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language.
The installer also bundles a full Julia version manager called juliaup. One can use juliaup to install specific Julia versions, it alerts users when new Julia versions are released and provides a convenient Julia release channel abstraction.

It's an official installer developed by the julia team. It is used by OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for example and should be much easier to maintain.

I agree, I think juliaup is a competent replacement for julia.

I use julia at work and could maintain juliaup if required.

I use julia at work and could maintain juliaup if required.

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