Bug#973039: ocaml: does not pull ocaml-nox anymore

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 27/10/2020 à 15:14, Pino Toscano a écrit :
>> ocaml and ocaml-base are basically empty now that graphics has moved to
>> a separate source package (ocaml-graphics). I am planning to turn
>> ocaml-nox and ocaml-base-nox into transitional packages and move
>> everything to ocaml and ocaml-base, but that's for later (after the
>> transition is over, for sure).
> 
> OK, so I guess they should not be used anymore e.g. in upstream CI
> systems?

I don't understand. What do you mean by "they"? And upstream CI does not
use Debian packages, does it?

>> Meanwhile, I will apply and upload your patch when the ocaml transition
>> is over (unless there is a strong argument that it should be done before).
> 
> TBH, I was slightly surprised that apparently nothing broke because of
> this, as there are sources that do not build-depend on ocaml-nox (only
> ocaml).

This would only happen for a package that does not depend on any
external library, as library -dev packages usually depend on ocaml-nox-$ABI.

> Regarding the transition: it looks like there is not much activity from
> the LLVM people... so I'd ask for an upload, since it will still be
> stuck waiting anyway.

OK.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane