Bug#819341: [unison] Please build unison-fsmonitor

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2020-07-23 17:08:48 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> I am planning to change the packaging structure of Unison in Debian.
> 
> My current roadmap is:
> - create a new source package unison-2.48
> - make meta-unison provide unison and unison-gtk with symlinks to the
>   binaries provided by unison-2.48
> - let the "unison" source package disappear
> - create a new source package unison-2.51 (or whatever is the latest
>   version at the time)
> - ...
> - build unison-fsmonitor in unison-2.51
> 
> and be done with alternatives. This new packaging scheme makes more
> sense IMHO and will ease co-installability of multiple versions of unison.

What would be important would be to include the OCaml version number
in the unison package name, since it has an effect on the behavior.

I had to put unison 2.48.4-1+b1 to hold on my Debian/unstable machines
in order to be able to sychronize with Debian/stable (buster) ones.

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