Re: uploaded fixes for #452340 and #671559

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 11/05/2012 13:51, Hendrik Tews a écrit :
> I uploaded fixes for bugs #452340 and #671559 to the ocaml git
> repository. I hope fixing bugs this way is fine.

Sure.

> Regarding 671559 and the use of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item I
> added Pre-Depends: emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14) to ocaml-mode.
> Alternatively one could drop the Pre-Depends and check 
> (fboundp 'debian-pkg-add-load-path-item) in the install and
> startup script.

Adding Pre-Depends is bad. From Debian policy, section 7.2 [1]:
> You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this has
> been discussed on the debian-devel mailing list and a consensus about
> doing that has been reached.

Please do the other way.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane