Re: omake failures (#510919) (and RFS)

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

I wrote in <[🔎] 4964C23C.7020101@glondu.net>:
>> 1. apply the above mentioned patch against ocamldep as brought with ocaml-nox 
>> package. That would be pretty dangerous, since ocaml-nox rdeps are exposed at 
>> risk. Unlikely to be approved by the release team.
> 
> It seems the patch has already been applied upstream, since version
> 3.10¹. So the patched version shouldn't be necessary any more (to be
> verified).
> 
> [...]
> 
> I intend to have a deeper look at omake by the end of the week... with
> at least a migration to git, and switch of Maintainer to d-o-m (unless
> otherwise instructed). I will then give my opinion on point 4.

As said in git commit bfd1cebf64a424759df083c1fc15276cc9ea3fff:
> Do not install ocamldep-omake (Closes: #510919)
> 
> The build system of omake detects by itself that standard ocamldep
> supports -modules (starting from OCaml 3.10), and do not need
> ocamldep-omake in this case. However, it still installs it.

FWIW, the only (build-)rdep in our svn, ocaml-reins, builds correctly
without ocamldep-omake.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane