Re: transition to OCaml 3.11

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> We plan to go ahead and uploading ocaml 3.11 itself (the package)
> during next week, then slowly uploading all the other packages. This
> time, given the unstable freeze, quite a lot of packages will need
> sourceful uploads, and we plan to take care of the appropriate delay
> to avoid unnecessary build failures. Then, as usual, we will request
> the usual round of binNMUs and dep-wait as with the old ocaml
> transitions.

While performing archive-wide checks on source packages currently in
unstable, I've picked some packages that will need sourceful uploads
before starting the migration. I've put them on:

  http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OCamlTaskForce/OCaml311Migration

with some explanations. Mostly, the change consists of adding dh-ocaml
to build-dependencies, required for packages that use the CDBS class...

I am strongly in favour to deal with this TODO list (i.e. prepare the
said packages for an upload to unstable, and add the relevant line in
some round) before we start the transition.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane