Re: new web page: overview of OCaml related packages / transitions
On Thursday 12 July 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:44:33PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> > Do you know why mldonkey, coq... are not there ?
>
> ( Please expand the "..." above if you know something else is missing. )
The package of `ara' is also missing. I'm not sure if it needs a rebuild
against the new OCaml version, if so somebody please find the latest sources
at: svn.debian.org/svn/ara/trunk/
> I missed them, but yes, I understand why they are not there. Both
> mldonkey and coq build-depends on ocaml-*, but don't have any
> relationship between the binary package and some ocaml-* package.
> Basically, what the status generation script is telling is that those
> packages do not need any transition, and I think it is right: those
> packages will continue working even if the ocaml version in the archive
> get changes.
If I understand you correctly ara falls in this category.
> Of course it is not granted that they will be able to build properly
> against the new OCaml, so it can be useful to have a way to see in the
> status page packages which build-depends on ocaml-* but does not depend
> on it. What do you think? Proposals about how to show them?
>
> > FYI: there is more packages than you think which have been uploaded to
> > experimental an rebuild for ocaml 3.10.0 by me, but this has showed me a
> > nasty bug in some of my package (ocaml-fileutils, ocaml-benchmark,
> > ocamlgsl...) -- will be corrected tonight
>
> Eh :), you see, the page is useful :-P But I'm getting curious: what the
> heck happened to that packages for not being properly reported?
>
> Cheers.
Why don't you use ara to identify/filter all. For example:
ara -list "depends:/ocaml/ or build-depends:/ocaml/"
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