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Re: testing transition, proposed removals



On 18-09-2007, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
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> I'm hereby proposing to ask for the removal of the following packages to
> foster the transition of ocaml 3.10 to testing:
> - regexp-pp (not working with neither camlp4 nor camlp5, popcon
>   installation count is 18)
> - ocamldbi (not ported to sqlite3, upstream development stalled,
>   installation count on popcon 95, but 80 people have installed
>   ocaml-libs which depends on ocamldbi)
> - pagodacf (not ported to ocaml 3.10 which changed the typing of
>   formatters [I've tried, but found no trivial fix for that], upstream
>   bug on this unanswered, installation count on popcon 24)
> - ocaml-sqlite (superseded by ocaml-sqlite3)
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> Of the above one the one which I regret most to ask for removal is
> pagodacf, but I've failed to fix it quickly and I lack time to try
> again; volunteers are welcome.  Maybe in the meantime we can only ask
> for its removal from testing and not from unstable ... (contextually
> with the transition which will need manual hint).
>

I cannot find upstream homepage... It seems pretty dead... or maybe i
miss something.

> Other news: cameleon is on the go (Sylvain is on it), meta-ocaml,
> ocamldap, facile have been uploaded today (the latter to the 1-day
> delayed queue).
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cameleon and unison in fact. But unison has been binNMUed without
problem. Cameleon should go tonight or tomorrow depending on the fact
that i can find a solution for a mysterious (as bug are always
mysterious).

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall



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