Bug#933992: Bug#934340: Please remove the dependency on obus and camlp4

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 10/08/2019 à 16:59, Thomas Leonard a écrit :
> obus is only optional on systems that don't use D-BUS. It is needed on Debian.
> 
> https://github.com/ocaml-community/obus/blob/master/CHANGES.md says:
> 
> 1.2.0 (2019-07-04)
> - remove all Camlp4 dependencies
> 
> So I think Debian can just update to that.

Not at the moment. The new version depends on (at least) two NEW
packages (lwt_log and ppxlib), and the NEW queue backlog is pretty big now.

Moreover, lwt_log depends on lwt >= 4.0.0, but Debian has 2.7.1.
Updating lwt in Debian cannot be done IMHO without updating
ocaml-ctypes, which requires (at least) another NEW package (integers).

So I guess we'll have to remove obus and its reverse dependencies from
testing for a while.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane