Re: transition binNMUs

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

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:38:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:30:01AM +1100, skaller wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:21 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 16:08:05 +0000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:43:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > > > some packages have been binNMUed by the release team for the 3.09.1
> > > > > transition, and so don't need to be reuploaded:
> > > > 
> > > > As I already observed elsewhere all those packages must have an RC bug
> > > > filed against them for not respecting the debian ocaml policy.
> > > > 
> > > Well, I still don't understand why this is so wrong in your opinion.
> > 
> > The problem is that *Debian* is broken. The strict dependencies
> > are a hack to fix this. 
> > 
> > Really we need that library XYZ-3 source package, depending on 
> > library ABC-5,  built with Ocaml-3.09.0-4, should produce binary 
> > package
> > 
> > 	XYZ-3-Ocaml-3.09.0-4
> 
> <snipped interesting analysis>
> 
> Stefano, it is my believe that this is not the problem.

Ah, sorry all for messing upmy references, this is skaller, not Stefano.

Thanks Samuel for pointing this out :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther