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Re: ocaml package on SVN



On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:06:49AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:14:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > If someone would want to adapt it for future inclusion in the official
> > debian policies, they are welcome.
> 
> What do you mean? I doubt that specific policies (like our or python or
> perl or ...) are going to be included in the debian policy.

Well, but listed on the developers corner front page.

> > > Anyway I guess that ocaml package has a lot of changes to upstream
> > > sources and switching to dpatch require a bit of time. I can perform the
> > > migration if you like, but only if you next decide (and if you like) to
> > > use SVN and dpatch otherwise is useless ...
> > 
> > For next release i plan to use dpatch, that is put all the changes to
> > debian source in a subdirectory of debian, and apply them at build time.
> 
> Ok
> 
> > I would prefer not to use a tarball as XFree86 uses, since this would
> > mean loosing the md5sum of the upstream tarball, but i guess this is
> > doable.
> 
> With our current approach we don't use the tarball as XFree86, I've
> committed the orig tarball on SVN just for archival and handyness, but
> it isn't going to be embedded in another tarball as XFree86 does.
> 
> > If we go this way, i would do the dpatching myself for 3.07. I don't
> > know if it would be worthwill to do this for 3.06 still, as said, i
> > hope we can ship 3.07 with sarge.
> 
> Ok
> 
> > > Fine thanks, I've also met Jerome, Ralf and other local DDs at a First
> > > Jeudi meeting; if you have a week end or so to travel to Paris we will
> > > be glad to meet with you.
> > 
> > Yep, i will be more often in paris starting starting from july, so this
> > would be easier. Maybe i can even be there for next FirstJeudi meeting,
> > i don't know.
> 
> Sounds great, so we can arrange a Debian Ocaml Maintainers Meeting
> ("DOMM" ... sounds fine :-) in Paris! Anyway I'm going to be in Paris
> only until 10-15 of July, then I will be back in Paris in September. For
> the First Jeudi I will be surely here, anyway.

Noting is decided yet, but i would keep you informed as soon as i know
for sure.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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