Bug#810212: segfaults when using as unison-2.40 to sync with a jessie system

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

On 2016-01-08 11:28, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:05:51PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>
> > Indeed. You can also see #807019 for more information about this bug.
> > At this point, we are stuck with no real solution (except doing 
> > massive
> > backports). Some people copy over unison binary on Jessie systems to
> > be able sync, or install Jessie's unison on their testing or sid box.
>
> Ack. Given the situation, could a new version of unison for stable be a
> worthwile candidate for something to go in a point release?

AFAIK, this plan requires also a new version of OCaml stable which is a
no-go. That's I've mentioned the idea of backporting OCaml 4.02.3 and
use it to backport Unison 2.48. Possibly, Unison 2.48 in backports won't
have the gtk interface to reduce the number of packages to backport.

Regards,

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Mehdi