Re: omake failures (#510919)

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

George Danchev a écrit :
> I strongly believe that removing 0.9.8.5-3-3 from both lenny and sid is the 
> way to go, since such a insane package as have been put together should have 
> never been uploaded to the archive in the first place [1]. Then prepare a new 
> and fixed package (sane orig.tar.gz included), upload it to sid and ask 
> release team if they can tolerate such a unblock for lenny at that stage. If 
> they can't, well that is not their fault. There is no excuse for deliberately 
> uploading such a compromised orig.tar.gz to the archive and then insist on it 
> being released with lenny for whatever reasons. I personally see this as a 
> dextrous way to deceive and bypass the established procedures.

What you propose might be the most elegant way, but involve troublesome
steps. It means removing ocaml-reins and patching upstream omake to deal
with the missing file. And maybe the new package will also require a
more thorough (and time-consuming) review.

-- 
Stéphane