Re: what to do with the ocaml metapackage

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:17:11AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.

Nope, i would say drop the problem for now, or upload an ocamldbi without
perl4caml support to testing-proposed-updates, and keep the current version in
unstable so we can hammer out the bug.

Friendly,

Sven Luther