On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:28:04PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> What we are supposed to do with FTBFS like #483280, #483307, and similar where
> ocamlopt binary is just not available on these particular architectures, in
> that case IA-64 ? Should we just set the severity to important as Luk Claes
> did for #483280 and wait for upstream to provide support for IA-64 or should
> we remove ia64 from Architecture: list ?
The former (just raising the severity and wait) is not an option, we
need to either make the package build on that arch or drop---your second
option---ia64 from Architecture list. The alternative is of course to
make the package build without ocamlopt (i.e. relying only on ocamlc) if
possible in your fase. If you want to actively maintain ara this is your
call on that, but please choose and act quickly :) as we are in the
middle of a transition here.
> By the way, I'd like to thank Stefano and Sylvain for improving the (my;-) ara
> package and *documenting* that in README.Debian-source! I'm already a DD, so
> I can upload myself, but I'd love to co-maint/co-develop it together.
You are more then welcome, but in fact I did the last two uploads of
ara, respectively for 3.10.1 and 3.10.2 transitions just because nobody
else was doing. I'm not particularly willing to take care of ara in the
long run. So if you want to do that please step in, but also please stay
at pace with the rest of ocaml packages during transitions, as they need
coordination.
The only particular desire I have for the ara maintenance is to have it
on the pkg-ocaml-maint repo, so that access control is the same as for
other OCaml related packages. This would make it easier to help when/if
needed. I understand that ara has its own alioth project for
_development_, but this should not hinder having its packaging
elsewhere. To be read: yes, I think ara should no longer be a native
package: use the ara project on alioth for development, and
pkg-ocaml-maint for packaging of "upstream" releases.
Cheers.
PS anybody can have a look at the spamoracle FTBFS pointed out by
George/Luk? (BTW: thanks for pointing it out here!)
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