On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:19:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Unless someone objects to it, I'll package and upload OCaml 3.09.1 as
> > soon as 3.09.0 is in testing. Do you all agree with a full rebuild?
> Yes, but let's do it like this :
> 3) we ask Steve to requeue all those ocaml related packages for a binNMU,
> and file RC bugs against all those that fail.
I object this way of making ocaml transitions.
Generally speaking a new release of ocaml may imply any kind of changes
including, for example, source level incompatibility. I don't want my
packages to be binNMU-ed for making a transition: I want to test them
and perform a regular sourceful upload.
If we want more automation we can implement it on top of our svn: we
basically have all the piecese we need, we just need to standardize the
name of the target who generate debian/foo from debian/foo.in files.
Then a couple of line of shell scripts can rebuild all ocaml packages in
the repo (adding lines to debian/changelog as well) and we can say to
the maintainer something like: "hey maintainer, we debian-ocaml-maint
automatically rebuild your package, it will be uploaded in a week if you
will not look at it before".
Regarding the list of all ocaml packages we already have it: it's
available at http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org including the
package build order (topological sort according to build dependencies).
If some ocaml related package is not listed there it's a fault of the
maintainer which did not say so.
Cheers.
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