Bug#900018: FTBFS with latest cmdliner

[Andy Li <andy@onthewings.net>]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org> wrote:

I have the feeling that OPAM team is not willing to support OPAM 1.2.2
for a long time. So it doesn't make sense, at least for me, to
include it in Buster.

Yesterday, I've uploaded opam-file-format to NEW. As soon as it gets
accepted, I'll upload latest version of OPAM to Debian/Sid.

It's based on the discussion with upstream at
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-forever-beta-issue/1779/6

 

Upstream mentioned in the linked discussion (above) that opam 1.2.2 is their LTS release.

Sadly, opam 2 is not yet final, and "is still subject to backwards-incompatible changes". See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501992#c23

I think we better stick to 1.2.2 for now.

Best regards,

Andy