Bug#944404: libsedlex-ocaml: sedlex should depend on ocaml-uchar
Le 10/11/2019 à 03:33, Andy Li a écrit :
>> It seems that sedlex should depend on ocaml-uchar[1], which needs to be
>> packaged for Debian. According to sedlex opam file, this is already done
>> for opam builds of sedlex [2].
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/ocaml/uchar
>> [2] https://github.com/ocaml-community/sedlex/blob/master/sedlex.opam#L32
>
> I've packaged uchar last week:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944085
> It's in the NEW queue right now.
>
> Since it's a compatibility package, which is effectively empty for
> OCaml 4.08, I've just removed sedlex's dependency on uchar and
> uploaded ocaml-sedlex 2.1-2.
IMHO, "empty" compatibility packages can be put directly into the ocaml
package (or whichever package is more appropriate). For example, this is
what I've done for seq, which is depended upon by lwt.
> Will close this bug once uchar is accepted into unstable and the
> sedlex dependency on uchar is restored.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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