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

[Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:

> Alternatively, wouldn't it be possible to rename the current unison
> package and make it co-installable with the one from stretch?

Possible maybe, but it wouldn't help. Both packages would be
compiled with the only OCaml compiler available in the current
Debian version, hence both unison's would be incompatible with
the one in stretch.

One side condition that you have to keep in mind is that there
are a lot of architectures and the OCaml team does source
uploads, which get compiled using the current Debian version.

As Stéphane pointed out already: Please discuss with the upstream
authors or submit patches there. Alternatively you could set up
inofficial repository version, where you provide unision packages
compiled with different OCaml versions.

Hendrik