Re: new behaviour of lintian on ocamlrun scripts

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan  9, 2008 at 22:20:34 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:

> My package depends on ocaml-base-nox-3.10.0. The lintian check is
> obviously wrong since it does not allow for a versionend 
> ocaml-base-nox package. I wonder what the right check would be:
> 
> - if I undestand correctly the dependency must be on ocaml-base-nox,
>   not on ocaml. Or is there is a case in which the ocaml package
>   can provide the ocamlrun interpreter?

None that I can think of.

> 
> - are there any reasons in which it makes sense to depend on
>   ocaml-base-nox and not on ocaml-base-nox-N.NN.NN for 
>   packages that use #!/usr/binocamlrun scripts? I cannot think
>   of one
> 
> So, in my opinion the right lintian check would be to check for dependency
> on a package ocaml-base-nox-(\d\.)+. Or did I miss something?
> 
It could be ocaml-base-(\d\.)+ if the program needs graphics stuff.

Cheers,
Julien