Bug#883018: Please make ocaml-nox provide ocamlopt (or not) depending on arch

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>]

Package: ocaml-nox
Version: 4.05.0-10
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I just took the scilab package out of orphanage, and I'm having a
problem : it has some caml code, but wants to compile it with ocamlopt,
which is not available on all architectures.

If you look at:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=scilab&suite=experimental

you'll see that the previous maintainer set a list of ok-arches and for
some reason, armel went from ok to not-ok.

That means the same depend on the ocaml-nox package works for some
arches, not on others. It can also start to fail on some (and I'll know)
or start to work on others (and I won't know).

Would it be possible to make ocaml-nox provide or not provide a virtual
ocamlopt package depending on the arch? That way, I would make scilab
depend on ocamlopt and things would go smoothly as you update the
ocaml-nox package.

Thanks,

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