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Re: splitting ocamlmake and cmigrep off ocaml-tools



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:41:13PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > In fact I am a bit surprised that packages actually build-depend
> > on ocaml-tools. I had expected that people install the package just
> > to have the latest version of ocamlmakefile around, and then copy the
> > file into their project when they start a new one (as one does it
> > for instance with config.sub and config.guess).
> > 
> > % grep-dctrl -s Package -F Build-Depends ocaml-tools /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources
> > Package: approx
> > Package: missinglib
> > Package: ocaml-sha
> > Package: ocaml-sqlite
> > Package: pycaml
> > Package: regexp-pp
> > Package: syslog-ocaml
> > 
> > I guess these build-dependencies are due to ocamlmakefile. 
> 
> Well, I'm responsible for 3 of these :-), and I have an aversion to
> copying anything when it can be installed once in /usr/share.  A
> holdover attitude from the days of small hard disks, I suppose.

OK. I won't update ocaml-tools before the new ocamlmakefile and cmigrep
packages have passed the NEW queue, and then send a notification to
all maintainers of packages that build-depend on ocaml-tools.

-Ralf.
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