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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:20:32AM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Anyway, thanks for the explaination, now come the time to find a fix..
> Should we change deps for ocaml in backports.org ? To me, it seems that:
> >Depends: ocaml-base (= 3.10.1-1~bpo40+1), ocaml-base-3.10.1, ocaml-nox-3.10.1
> Could be replaced by:
> >Depends: ocaml-base (= 3.10.1-1~bpo40+1), ocaml-nox (= 3.10.1-1~bpo40+1)
> It seems reasonable since these two packages are built along with ocaml..
>
> But so, why isn't it already the default ? Begin new to ocaml
> packaging, there can be something I didn't get so far.. Are there a
> lot of packages that build-dep or depends on ocaml-base-3.10.1 or
> ocaml-nox-3.10.1 ??
Build deps on virtual packages are bad (tm) for a bug in the buildd
software which has never been fixed, so you should not build dep on
virtual packages, but rather use versioned build-deps. And yes, I do
think that such build deps should only be put in place for backports to
workaround this issue, I wouldn't like to see them committed to trunk/.
Either create a backports branch or just upload the change to backports.
That said, I don't get why the above dependencies are strict (i.e. with
"="), shouldn't they rather be with ">="?
Cheers.
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