Re: Upgrading libdbi-ocaml-dev in unstable brings in lots and lots of packages ...
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:15:14PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I suppose that the dependency should be on ocaml-base-nox. Not sure. It is
> either libdbi-ocaml or libpcre-ocaml which pull it in.
>
> A bit of checking shows :
>
> Package: libpcre-ocaml
> Maintainer: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
> Version: 5.08.1-1
> Depends: ocaml-base-3.08, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libpcre3 (>= 4.5)
>
> So this is pcre which is problematic, i believe. I have the impression that
> pcre is pure string checking, and thus needs only ocaml-base-nox-3.08, but
> please someone check it and i will NMU. Stefano is biking all over europe, and
> will not be back until end of August.
I had a snoop around the build files here:
http://www.oefai.at/~markus/ocaml_sources/pcre-ocaml-5.08.1/
and I can't see how PCRE could depend on anything other than the PCRE
C library and GNU make (to build) ...
> > Why does it want so much of X (this is a server)? Why is postgres
> > going to be removed!!
>
> No idea about this one. libpcre-ocaml-dev does the right -nox thingy, but it
> pulls in libpcre-ocaml. about postgresql, no idea, but apt-cache is your
> friend.
I've discussed this with John. My belief is that libdbi-ocaml-dev
should only suggest the driver packages (eg. libpgsql-ocaml-dev, and
in particular, libmysql-ocaml-dev).
Rich.
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