Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

clone 562606 -1
reassign -1 lintian
retitle -1 add tags for needed versioned dependencies with dh_ocaml
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

Mehdi Dogguy a écrit :
> dh-ocaml will not see his depends changing (just like the quilt package
> do). We might correct to build-dep for OCaml (and we will certainly need
> to make a lintian warning which says that Debhelper 7.1.0 is needed when
> using "dh --with ocaml").

I also think this is a sane approach. Like in
debhelper-*-versioned-build-depends tags, we could check for feature
used in source package and emit a warning when a versioned dependency is
 missing.

In dh_ocaml, we have the following constraints:

 - when using dh --with quilt, or dh_ocaml{,init,doc}, one needs
   dh-ocaml (>= 0.9~) and ocaml-nox (>= 3.11.1-3~)
 - when using the --runtime-map, --no-defined-map, --checksum in a
   dh_ocaml call, one needs debhelper (>= 7.1.0~)

There are those I have in mind right now, but there might be others.

Back to the original bugreport, the right way would be to fix the
build-dependencies of all packages that use those extra dh_ocaml options
(and not really dh-ocaml itself).


Best regards,

-- 
Stéphane