Bug#877356: yojson: Please consider putting /usr/bin/ydump into its own binary package

[Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>]

Source: yojson
Version: 1.3.2-1+b1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

currently /usr/bin/ydump is part of the libyojson-ocaml-dev binary
package. Due to an ongoing OCaml transition, that package has been
uninstallable for a while.

The botch binary package needs /usr/bin/ydump for some of its
functionality and thus Depends on libyojson-ocaml-dev. But since
libyojson-ocaml-dev is uninstallable, so is botch.

Since, OCaml is statically linked, the problem could be averted by
putting /usr/bin/ydump in its own binary package. Then botch could just
depend on that new binary package instead of depending on
libyojson-ocaml-dev.

The advantage would be that in situations like right now during an OCaml
transition, botch would still be installable.

Thanks!

cheers, josch