Re: [damien.doligez@inria.fr: [Caml-list] Objective Caml release 3.08.4]

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

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hi all, i suppose you all did see this one.
> 
> Question, do we want to go ahead and package this, including the full rebuild,
> or wait for ocaml 3.09 ? Do anyone have any information of the likeliness of a
> 3.09 release nextly ? I mean we where acustomed to a yearly new ocaml release
> each summer, but maybe with the point releases this is no more of actuality.

Ok, i had a quick chat with the release team on these issues, and the
consensus seems to be :

  There is currently glic, xorg and KDE transition goin on, so an upload of
  3.08.4 or early 3.09 will only be hold up by these transitions.

  So, we wait to approximately end of september, and check out the above
  transitions again, if 3.09 (or the followup 3.09.1) has been release by
  then. Depending on the status of the transition we will then move for an
  upload or not. The uplod will probably mean some stuff may be removed from
  testing temporarily, if it is blocked by some of the bigger transition.

  In the meantime, we upload to experimental 3.09 as soon as it is released,
  both to help upstream testing and to satisfy our users.

The alternative being a ocaml-3.08.4 upload now, which would mean removal of
testing from some packages until the above transitions are ready.

Friendly,

Sven Luther