Re: ocaml 4.04 transition
On 3 July 2017 at 13:29, Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org> wrote:
> On 03/07/2017 14:02, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>>
>> I gave up on ocaml / ocamlbuild split, and thus made dh-ocaml to
>> depend on ocamlbuild. I guess the right approach is for the packages
>> to build-depend on ocamlbuild, but that was too many deltas for me to
>> upload into Ubuntu by myself.
>
>
> I understand. However, I think we can affort to add the build-depend when
> necessary in Debian.
>
Yeap, I expect to revert the dh-ocaml change in ubuntu, once all the
packages with ocamlbuild build-deps are synced over from debian to
ubuntu.
Only a subset of packages need ocamlbuild, and many use other build systems.
>> Current progress can be seen here:
>>
>> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/html/ocaml.html
>
>
> Thank you for setting this up.
>
It has been there before me =) it's a permanent ben tracker. But I
guess now you too know the link as to where it is ;-)
>> And would you like me to
>> file some bugs with and/or without patches for things that need fixing
>> for smooth 4.04 binNMU transition?
>
> It depends: if the new upstream version of some package fixes the
> compilation with 4.04 (which I guess happens most of the time, for the
> "live" packages), I would prefer to upload the new version instead of a fix.
> Also, I wouldn't mind removing packages from testing temporarily if it helps
> getting most of the other packages in testing.
>
I forward things upstream when I write brand new patch. There have
been only a couple like that. Thus in practice upgrade all the things
should work.
Note that many packages seem to have moved from ocaml forge to github.
Thus I had to do a bit of google-fu to find where new/current upstream
versions are.
Regards,
Dimitri.
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