On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:08:49PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > rebuilding a new version of ocamlnet will cause pxp to become unusable > > (mitical "inconsistent assumption over bla bla" error) if it will not be > > rebuilt against the new ocamlnet package. > Mmm, ok, i suppose there is no other solution to this ? Not in my mind ... > BTW, could you also look at the findlib entry in the policy document ? Uh? IIRC I wrote that part of the ocaml packaging policy :-) Have you performed some changes? > What i think should be done here, is that when things change that the > maintainer know will be incompatible (because of a new version, or > because of patch he applied) he bumps either the version of the virtual > provide or the debian revision. Ok, this was also my idea, we can use Provides: libfoo-ocaml-dev-2.1 when all goes well and bumg it to Provides: libfoo-ocaml-dev-2.1-2 if we need to apply some patch or similar. Does somebody know about characters limitations in Provides: field? Anyway ocaml package use it so I doubt that something like "-2.1-2" will be forbidden ... > That said, the policy mandates that the .so package depends on the -dev > package, and uses the same version, mmm, maybe the policy don't say so, > i need to check, but i am busy until tomorrow evening. Anyway, here is > what i have for camlzip : <snip> > Anyway, i don't believe it is good to have different versions of > libfoo-ocaml and libfoo-ocaml-dev installed at the same time. So i would > say go for it. Ack > Yes, please experiment it, and we can then see what came of this > experiment and apply it to the policy and all other packages (lablgl and > lablgtk are good candidates for this also). Ok, so can we start uploading stuff again? Chees. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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