Re: Ocaml 3.08.0-2 ready to enter testing, hold back by 54+4 packages.
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:17:11AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I have no reason to believe that this will fail to build with 3.09.
>
> Right. But since ounit is a library, it will need to be rebuild when
> 3.09 will be out otherwise packages which are build against it will fail
> to link.
>
> Currently this is probably not an issue since I guess ounit is a leaf in
> the dependency graph, but it's a good practice for ocaml libraries
> described also in the debian ocaml policy.
I'm not sure this is right. I should be able to apt-get source ounit,
and, on a system with OCaml 3.09 installed, expect it to build a .deb
that works with OCaml 3.09. But AFAIK there's no good way to make the
control statement generic enough.
A dependency in the control file is saying that I know this package will
only work with 3.08 (or whatever version). But I don't believe that to
be true.
The on-disk format of .cmo/.cmx files has not changed, has it?
-- John
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