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Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload



Hi,

On 07/12/2015 16:23, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> 
> The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm
> not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more.
> Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with
> previous Debian releases, but another change in OCaml 4.02 makes it
> incompatible anyway (both communicating unisons need to be compiled with
> the same version of OCaml in practice, which won't be the case any more
> when one side is Debian stable, and the other Debian testing). IMHO,
> that's a design flaw in Unison that cannot be easily fixed.
> 

A possible way out for stable (and old-stable) users could be to use 2.48
from backports, when 2.48 will be packaged and migrated to testing.

My 2 cents,

-- 
Mehdi


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