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monotone-viz should not be linked with -custom, violates OCaml packaging policy



Package: monotone-viz
Severity: important
Version: 1.0.1-1

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:18:15PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> If monotone-viz doesn't use any more
> binding that is not provided by lablgtk2, it should build pure bytecode
> executables (without -custom) on bytecode architectures.

FWIW, I discovered the existence of monotone-viz as an OCaml program as
well during the NMU. I also noticed this bug and intended to submit a
separate bug report, here we go.

Linking with -custom is deprecated upstream and violates the OCaml
packaging policy (it is more or less as linking statically C
applications, with all the related security issues when statically
linked libraries need security upgrades).

Cheers.

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