Re: About this ocaml versioning stuff
Selon Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
> > I'm pleased to hear that :-)
>
> Ok, i can do this way then, i would like to hear from Stefano first
> though.
:-)
> > > Also, to not let the suffix work i did get lost, i could release cvs
> > > snapshot packagesusing this technics, and we can delay the move to it
> > > to the next release.
> >
> > I think it should be discussed upstream first.
>
> It would be nice if snapshot libraries were also packaged using said
> ocaml cvs snapshots. This would stress test the whole thing, and give us
> good experience about how to handle this.
It is currently possible.
> > > I am still waiting for a apt/dpkg patch to fix the virtual packages
> > > problem from Jerome :))))))
> >
> > :) I can try to fix problems but I don't know what they are ;-)
>
> There is the source, and the exact problem is the one reported by
> Laurent Bonnaud. apt-get build-dep bibtex2html does not find the
> ocaml-3.06-1 package, and does not know about virtual packages.
Usually, virtual packages cannot be used alone, you need:
Build-Depends: real-package | virtual-package
with real-package providing virtual package.
This is the root of the problem methink: APT won't make any decision
on what to choose.
> I think the right solution is to make ocaml-3.07 a real package (maybe
> provided by the ocaml source package) and have it provide the ocaml
> package. This way it would be transparent for users, which do an apt-get
> install only, and since nobody should use ocaml as build dependencies,
> it should not be much of a problem. Mmm, i like this, it seems nice,
We can always use the old way of build-depending.
> altough i guess using ocaml as build dependencies would also have been
> usefull, but could create dangers for the autobuilders when the new
> ocaml is not yet ready. Anyway, it would still be nice to have apt fixed
> for this.
Policy requires what I explained about, so APT is not necessarily to
be fixed.
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Jérôme Marant
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