Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload
- To: Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>, Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>, 807019@bugs.debian.org, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-backports@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload
- From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:13:59 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20151229101359.GM28556@formorer.de>
- Mail-followup-to: Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com>, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>, Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>, 807019@bugs.debian.org, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-backports@lists.debian.org
- Reply-to: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>, 807019@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] CAM79t8GA449=Tbo4HU-w+AAuBonrq41X-s4LDy8qdQn8gD9gSA@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <[🔎] CAM79t8GA449=Tbo4HU-w+AAuBonrq41X-s4LDy8qdQn8gD9gSA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Alexandre Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm
> >> not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more.
> >> Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with
> >> previous Debian releases, but another change in OCaml 4.02 makes it
> >> incompatible anyway (both communicating unisons need to be compiled with
> >> the same version of OCaml in practice, which won't be the case any more
> >> when one side is Debian stable, and the other Debian testing). IMHO,
> >> that's a design flaw in Unison that cannot be easily fixed.
> >>
> >
> > A possible way out for stable (and old-stable) users could be to use 2.48
> > from backports, when 2.48 will be packaged and migrated to testing.
>
> The backport is indeed a nice way out of this, the rebuild is
> straightforward (only tried for amd64).
> http://sousmonlit.zincube.net/~niol/apt/pool/main/u/unison/unison_2.48.3-1~bpo80+1.dsc
>
> This should be integrated in the backports.d.o repositories.
Backports is not for fixing bugs in stable.
Alex - Backports ftpmaster
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