Re: what to do with the ocaml metapackage
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> The ocaml metapackage meta-ocaml is currently not in testing. This is
> due to the following chain:
>
> meta-ocaml depends on ocamldbi
> ocamldbi depends (among other) on perl4caml
> perl4caml is buggy (segfaults on archs other than i386, ppc at least)
>
> We can solve the problem with one of the two:
> 1) drop the dependency meta-ocaml -> ocamldbi
> 2) drop the dependency ocamldbi -> perl4caml
Or, we can not build perl4caml on PowerPC and not build perl4caml
support in ocamldbi on PowerPC.
Better yet, if someone could track down the perl4caml problem on
PowerPC... :-)
> I'm for (2) since I do not see in a near future a solution for the
> perl4caml buggyness. This will also permit ocamldbi to enter testing.
That would be the easier way. I could do that too.
-- John
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