Bug#711524: atdgen: fails to build with new ocaml-atd

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 10:29:20PM +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
>    Package: atdgen
>    Version: 1.2.2-1
>    Severity: serious
>    User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
>    Usertags: origin-ubuntu saucy
> 
>    I tried to rebuild atdgen against the new ocaml-atd, and it failed as
>    follows:
> 
> The current upstream version of atdgen is 1.2.5, it build-depends
> on biniou and yojson, whose packages are both not up-to-date in
> Debian, too.
> 
> Why do you expect that an old atdgen compiles with an up-to-date
> version of ocaml-atd? I don't think this is a bug at all.

I'm disappointed that you should try to dismiss this as not a bug.  It
is a bug, and a Severity: serious one, whenever the current version *in
Debian* fails to build against what's currently in Debian; a perfectly
reasonable resolution to this bug is to update the package in Debian,
whatever that involves.  Until that is done, this bug should remain
open.

> I am working on updating all these atd related packages from
> Martin Jambon. The problem is that all the still missing ones
> build-depend on biniou and biniou has one test that fails on i386
> (and works on amd64). So far, Martin only confirmed that this
> test is supposed to work, but I haven't got a fix yet.

I'm glad you're working on this.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]