Re: ocaml 3.05 uploaded to ftp-master.
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:51:07PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
>
> >> I'm afraid I haven't installed it yet. However, after reading what Xavier
> >> said about bugs in 3.05, I think I'm going to put it on hold until 3.06.
> >> It is too much broken. It is probably unfortunate to have it in Debian,
> >> but it is too late now.
> >
> > No, it is unstable, it will go into testing or even on users system,
> > only when all dependencies are solved, which will not happen anytime
> > soon, especially if we don't rebuild the libraries.
> >
> > Note also that they forgot to bump the .cmi magic number, so it will try
> > to build with current libraries, but segfault ...
>
> Yes, too bad :(
>
> >
> > Anyway, i feel it is good that it is in debian now, so people can test
> > it, maybe i should have but it in experimental though, with the
> > hindsight i have now.
>
> Well, I hope they'll have a 3.06 ASAP, because Debian unstable means
> that the packaging my be unstable, not the app ;-)
but it's only a minor problem that will hardly happen in the most cases.
And people should keep 3.04 if they have problems with it.
As there is no 3.05 library around anyway, this should be no problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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