Subject: [bug#48325] [PATCH v5 5/5] DRAFT gnu: julia: Update to 1.6.1.

From: Jean-Baptiste Volatier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 07:17:35 +0000

On Saturday, July 3rd, 2021 at 9:54 PM, Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> wrote:

> What are the reasons for adding "nss-certs" here?

nss-certs is added to address this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40185
Quoting Sacha0 from github:

> IIRC generate_precompile builds a mock registry to avoid going to network, but
> the cert issue that nico202 mentioned breaks that mock setup, and downstream
> operations subsequently try to go to network.

It is only needed to build the julia package.
Cheers,
JB.