Re: ocaml transition: ppx_deriving

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

On 16/10/2017 08:32, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> one of the current blockers for the ocaml transition is ppx_deriving.
> The current version in sid (4.1) does not compile with ocaml 4.05 and
> should probably be upgraded to 4.2. This version, however, has a new
> dependency ppx_derivers [1,2] which AFAICS is not yet packaged in debian.
> Is anybody working on this ? If not, is there a plan ? We could either
> package ppx_derivers which will have to go through NEW, hence causing
> a further delay, or try to patch up ppx_deriving 4.1 to make it compile for
> now. Any opinions or ideas ?

I think we should package ppx_derivers and ppx_deriving 4.2 directly. 
Concerning the delay, I think ppx_deriving and its rdeps can be 
temporarily removed from testing if they really delay the transition.

Cheers,

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Stéphane