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felix: newer upstream release



Package: felix
Severity: wishlist

John, I'm redirecting your e-mail to the Debian bug tracking system to
register your wish to package the newer felix version. 


On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 00:36 +1000, skaller wrote:
> I need to ask again please if a DD is willing to upload
> Felix. Previously Mike Furr did this but he's not around
> at the moment.
> 
> I think the packaging itself is maintained in the 
> debian ocaml maintainers repository, to which I don't
> have access (and probably shouldn't).
> 
> I'm willing to write and/or modify the necessary scripts.
> 
> Version 1.1 is already available somewhere in Debian,
> and is directly available as a package in Ubuntu Dapper.
> 
> Version 1.2 is now released and we're working on 1.3.
> 
> As mentioned previously the intended package structure has been
> considerably simplified: there are no longer any shared libraries
> to install is /usr/lib, for example. There is also more extensive
> documentation, so some work will be required on the packaging
> scripts.
> 
> BTW: the package includes extensive unit tests, and has
> been used previously to find bugs in Ocaml both by myself
> and the debian ocaml maint team.
> 
> -- 
> John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
> 
> 

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