Re: ocaml 3.04 is released today :)))
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:34:46PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> > I think various other packages follow the perl example and provide a -base
> > name, This is a well established naming convention to use, but i may be
> > willing to reconsider it.
>
> ok, you are right, this is almost a standard in debian, so no probs.
>
> > Anyway, i was thinking about the ocaml package providing and replacing the
> > ocaml-base package.
>
> nice idea.
>
> > > I don't know if there is a policy statement but usually the *-doc
> > > packages install the docs in the /share/doc/ dir of the main package.
> >
> > mmm, i don't think there is any clear evidence for either cases.
>
> no, but consider, in addition to other thinkings, that the semantic of a
> /usr/share/doc/<name> dir is (IMO obviously) "contains documentation
> about package <name>", so /usr/share/doc/ocaml should contain all
> documentation about "ocaml" package even if it comes from other
> packages; /usr/share/doc/ocaml-doc should contain documentation about
> "ocaml-doc" package such as README.Debian, copyright of the
> documentation and so on.
>
> > ocaml-doc could be a symlink to ocaml/doc ?
>
> no, you will incur in name clashes about README.Debian, copyright and
> other files.
That is why i wanted to put it into a doc subdir :)))
> > There may also be compatibility problems ...
>
> surely :(, mainly due to explicit labels that are needed from ocaml
> 3.04.
> Have we to wait for upstream new version of libraries?
> This can be a good idea, but if we reach the freeze with ocaml 3.04 and
> libraries compiled with ocaml 3.03, we will be in trouble for bytecode
> compatibility.
Let's upload what is uploadeable, and contact upstream if there is problem.
I don't want woody shipping with outdated stuff.
> We can wait uploading ocaml 3.04 until a reasonbale amount of libreries
> will be ported to ocaml 3.04, but also this isn't a good choice.
No, i will upload it as soon as i have it ready.
There is a 2 week wait for it going to testing anyway.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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