Re: ocaml 3.09.0 and word from the RMs ...
On Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 14:52:57 +0000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I don't have the time to look at your work right now, but I don't follow
> you here. The resulting debian/control after substitutions in the ocaml
> package still have the provide lines. So why we can't still build-depend
> on them?
>
> Nonetheless I don't like the idea of waiting for the package to be built
> and installed before being able to upload it. I would like to upload a
> package which build depend on ocaml-XXX and let the autobuilders build
> it when that dependency is available.
>
The build-dependency on the virtual packages is needed when the runtime
dependencies are hard-coded. If they are generated at build-time, you
don't need to build-depend on the virtual package, you can just use
ocaml (>= 3.09.0) or similar. This will actually work better, since
autobuilders will automatically put your package in Dep-Wait for ocaml
until ocaml is build and uploaded.
Cheers,
Julien
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