On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:10:10PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> As latest developments shown ara is packaged just after its canonical example
> of spamoracle, whose source packages are not supposed to be built (I would
> say useless to even try to;-) on arches where ocamlopt is not available. For
Yes, indeed that doubt of mine was rectified later on in this thread.
> > 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.
> Sure. Can transition-check(1) (recently added to devscripts) be of any help
> here ?
It depends on how release managers decide to act. I haven't yet looked
at the transition-check code (shame on me as a devscripts maintainer!),
but I guess it just parses transitions.yaml from ftp-master. If the RMs
are not using a yaml there for the ocaml transition it would be useless.
This, presumably would be the case at the beginning of transitions,
where serious "damages" can hardly be done by uploads, though
coordination would still help, for instance to be nice to the buildd.
So, to stay safe, "no", do not rely on transition-check, rather stay in
touch with us using this mailing list or the #debian-ocaml irc channel.
> > 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
<snip>
>
> I like that plan. Could you please add ara's debian/ to ocaml-maint repo, then
> I will remove debian/ from its "upstream" repo ?
I think it should start the other way around: just start doing an
"upstream" release or ara without any debian/ directory (of course with
a bumped upstream version). Then we can package it using the d-o-m repo.
What about it?
Cheers.
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