Re: Bug#599215: Homonymous modules that will conflict in META makes dh-ocaml choke.

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Le 06/10/2010 20:32, Guillaume Yziquel a écrit :
> You would have a hierarchy of folders like /usr/lib/ocaml/python/X.X/*

How do you plan to handle reverse dependencies?

There is a similar issue with llvm, but it doesn't use dh_ocaml. I'm not 
sure at the moment of what would be the proper way to dh_ocaml-enable it.

> > > I would not like to be able to rename the oCamlPython files upstream
> > > (although I will
> > > presumably be forced to). Keep in mind that they cannot be loaded
> > > simultaneously because
> > > of the META file conflict. The problem is that dh-ocaml fails with
> > >
> > > dh_ocaml -s
> > > E: Error: unit OCamlPython exported in libpython3.2-ocaml-dev v0.90-2
> > > but already exported by libpython-ocaml-dev v0.90-1
> > > E: Error running /usr/bin/ocaml-md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython3.2-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython2.5-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython2.6-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython3.1-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython2.7-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --md5sums-dir
> > > debian/libpython2.4-ocaml-dev//var/lib/ocaml/md5sums --load-info
> > > debian/libpython3.2-ocaml-dev.oinfo.debhelper dep at /usr/bin/dh_ocaml
> > > line 448.
> > > make: *** [common-binary-predeb-arch] Erreur 255
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: erreur: fakeroot debian/rules binary a produit une
> > > erreur de sortie de type 2
> >
> > What kind of dependency would you expect for something that depends on
> > your bindings?
>
> I do not understand exactly the question. For now I'd appreciate being
> able to do something like:
>
> ocamlfind ocamlc -package python26.interpreter pythonmodulebinding.ml
>
> Does that answer your question?

No.

Which package would provide the META file?


Cheers,

--
Stéphane