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Re: ocaml 3.04-5 in incoming ...



On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:06:29PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> Changes:
>  ocaml (3.04-5) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * Split ocamlc.opt, ocamlopt.opt and ocamllex.opt into the
>      ocaml-native-compilers package.
>    * The ocaml-best-compilers virtual package is provided by
>      ocaml-native-compilers if it is built and by ocaml if not.
>    * Added an ocaml-source package containing the source to ocaml for packages
>      which need them as build-depends.
>    * Applied Ian Zimmerman's caml.el patch. (Closes:#129650,#130301)

What about moving ocaml documentation in /usr/share/doc/ocaml?

> Notice that i created a ocaml-source package, which may contain not needed
> stuff (ity is just a plain copy of the source) the package is 2mb big, and
> arch: all, so it would not represent a too heavy load.
> 
> Package4s needing it can just build-depend on it, and the source are in :
> /usr/lib/ocaml/source. If needed i can change this directory to something more
> appropriate (source/ocaml-3.04 would also be good).
> 
> That said, it is not possible to build the sources onplace, since the files
> are mode 644, and anyway people should not build things in debian private
> place. I don't know how package depending on the ocaml source handles this
> kind of things, but i think they should be changed so that they symlink these
> files.

Better place is /usr/src/ocaml that is usually writable by "src" group
(also the ocaml source should be owned by that group).

> Apart form that, i hope the .opt split is convenient for all and work as
> planned, particularly the ocaml-best-compilers. I am a little anxious on how

Please reply to previous mail so that we can clarify the
ocaml-best-compilers usage.

TIA,
Cheers.

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