Re: ocaml-bdb

["Sylvain LE GALL" <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>]

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:34:52PM -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been looking for OCaml bindings for the Berkeley database library and I
> haven't been having much luck.
> 
> But I found this URL:
> http://www-static.sane.net/debian/dists/unstable/installed/ocaml-bdb-ym_1.0.5-1_powerpc.changes
> 
> which includes:
>     Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
>     Changed-By: Michael K. Edwards <medwards-debian@sane.net>
>     Description: 
>      libbdb-ym-ocaml - yminsky's Berkeley DB interface for OCaml - runtime
>      libbdb-ym-ocaml-dev - yminsky's Berkeley DB interface for OCaml - development
>     Changes: 
>      ocaml-bdb-ym (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
>      .
>        * First release (version is from SKS, within which yminsky's bdb is
>          now bundled)
> 
> I can't seem to find any mention of this anywhere else.  It appears that
> yminksy's BDB is the one other people use, but all I could find was a tarball
> from 2002 that wouldn't build; the SKS (mentioned above) CVS has commits to
> their bdb/ directory from a "yminsky", but even that was quite strange to
> build.
> 
> So my questions:
>  - Is this an unofficial package, or is the debian-ocaml-maint@ leftover cruft?
>  - Otherwise, is there some official place to get a distribution of this?
> 
> [I'm not on the list; please CC me.]
> 

Mr Edward has contributed from time to time to debian ocaml
maintainer... He should be considered as part of the team, but all
packages which are outside debian, should be considered not official.

If Mr Edward ask some of debian developper belonging to Debian Ocaml
maint, maybe he should have this package uploaded to official debian.

Anyway, if a package is not in debian it is not official, debian ocaml
maint is only a group of maintainer, with no other existence than
Mailing List and alioth project ( ie we use standard debian tools to
publish packages ).

If you can get in touch with Mr Edward, saying that you are intersted in
having this package uploaded to debian, he will find people who can do
that here -- just ask him

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall