Re: Ocaml 3.08.0-2 ready to enter testing, hold back by 54+4 packages.

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:35:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:55:34AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I have no reasno to believe that ounit will be incompatible with OCaml
> > 3.09.  In fact, it works fine with 3.07 too.  If somebody has that
> 
> Ocaml upstream strongly recomends to rebuild each time there is a new upstream
> compiler release. This is why they now also have the stable and the

I am not disputing that (any more).  The ounit *SOURCE* will be
compatible.

> > Perhaps we can use the shlibs mechanism or something for this?
> 
> Yes, that would be nice, still we have trouble in case of you uploading iounit
> a day or two before i upload a new ocaml, and then it is well possible that
> the different arches will have a iounit built with a different ocaml.

True; however, the dependencies will still be correct and prevent a
castrophe.

> > > > ounit will enter testing as soon as the s390 build is uploaded and its 
> > > > 10 days are over, because its dependency on ocaml will be satisfied in 
> > > > testing). I can file a serious bug in the BTS if necessary, to block 
> > > > this migration.
> > 
> > What exactly is the problem with this?
> 
> It is not policy compliant.

In what way?

> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther