Bug#880449: unison: Uncaught exception Failure("input_value: bad bigarray kind")

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + wishlist wontfix

Le 31/10/2017 à 18:43, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
>> Since the upgrade to 2.48.4-1, I get when synchronizing with
>> a Debian/stable server:
>>
>> Unison failed: Uncaught exception Failure("input_value: bad bigarray kind")
> [...]
> 
> https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/issues/94 says:
> 
> "This happens when unison is not compiled with the same version of ocaml
> on both machines. I don't know the ocaml version used in debian testing,
> but you should install the same one to compile in debian wheezy."
> 
> The reporter used wheezy there, but in my case, this is between
> unstable (this version) and stretch.

This is a known issue, and not easy to fix. Upstream is not interested
to make unison compatible with other versions of itself (or same version
compiled with another version of OCaml): Unison is designed to work only
with the same version, period.

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Stéphane