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



On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:54:20PM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote:
> > The only choice which is not a good solution is "2)" since, it requires
> > work that is quite complicated to do if upstream doesn't agree.
> 
>  Well, not really (at least in theory).
>  You can just run the old camlp4 once to translate the source to standard
>  syntax and then package the translated sources. In principle this could
>  be done at every new upstream release. It could be bad debian practice,
>  though.
> 

How readable is the translated source ? 

Notice that if the ledit licence is GPLish, we may violate the refered
form of modification requirement by doing this.

That said, there was no development on ledit upstream since over 4
years, but i see that there was in the last few months. Was this more
than just cosmetic changes ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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