Re: Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml
Gerfried Fuchs a écrit :
> Out of curiosity, why is this sourceful upload done with ocaml packages
> where almost everything else in the pool is able to work with binNMUs
> for transitional reasons? Sorry, I don't get your reasoning for
> complicating things explecitly through build dependencies that are
> tighter set than they would be needed.
Sourceful uploads are needed with arch:all packages. A new version of
ocaml might also break existing packages, and a sourceful upload is also
needed in this case (in the specific case of mldonkey, the configure
script has to be made aware of the new version of ocaml). It was also
easier to upgrade libraries to a new upstream release during an OCaml
transition, because breakages couldn't be seen in the dependencies (this
is this exact issue that is solved with the 0.9 series of dh-ocaml...
see [1]... but as I said, the change is very intrusive). But we try to
use binNMUs as much as possible.
[1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/jfla10-dh-ocaml.pdf
Cheers,
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Stéphane
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