Bug#691683: unison: Rebuild unison in experimental against OCaml 4.00.0, or it won't sync

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

tags 691683 + upstream fixed-upstream pending
thanks

Le 28/10/2012 17:48, Matteo Settenvini a écrit :
> recently, ocaml 4 has hit experimental. Due to a change in the hashing
> algorithm[1], unison needs to be rebuilt against it, or it won't sync
> with other instances (for example, unison from Fedora 18 beta),
> because it outputs different archives on the two machines in the
> ..unison directory.

Just rebuilding is not the right fix. It would not fix compatibility
with old versions compiled with new ocaml.

I will soon upload version 2.40.102 which brings a fix to that. Version
2.40.102 (compiled with whatever version of OCaml) should be compatible
with 2.40.65 (compiled with OCaml < 4). OCaml 2.40.65 compiled with
OCaml >= 4 should be avoided forever as far as Debian is concerned.


Cheers,

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Stéphane