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1st incompatibility with 3.10 (ledit): let's package camlp4s?



Quoting (and rearranging) text from myself:

  ledit (1.13-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

    * BIG FAT WARNING: ledit does not build against the new camlp4, we will need
      one of:
      1) packaging camlp4s (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/)
      2) porting ledit to the new camlp4
      3) dropping ledit from the archive

Having read DDR's statement on the caml mailing list I'm pretty sure he
will never port ledit to the new camlp4.

We can do (2) in Debian, but I think it's pointless, we have
alternatives to ledit and it would also practically mean forking ledit.

We can do (3), which is reasonable precisely because we have
alternatives.

Or we can do (1), which might prove useful as I guess not every piece of
camlp4-related software will be ported to the new one, given that the
old one is available.

Therefore I'm in favour of (1) (still, I haven't yet looked at binary
name conflicts or similar issues...), what do you think?

Cheers.

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