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Re: Packaging elpi, hierarchy-builder and recent a mathcomp -- starting to work on it



Hi,

Le 27/10/2021 à 18:40, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> as I wrote to this list in august, I'm interested in coq theories, and
> specifically mathcomp, which will soon require hierarchy-builder, wich
> requires coq-elpi, which requires elpi.
> 
> I am a Debian developer and I am already part of a few teams (games,
> javascript, python and science), so I should have the general practice
> of managing packages right, but I really lack experience about OCaml
> packaging, so I will need some help before I'm efficient.	
> 
> I have tried to package elpi already, and made the result available
> here: https://mentors.debian.net/package/elpi/
> 
> Notice:
> (1) no ITP yet ;
> (2) already pointing to the team's salsa ;

Feel free to push your git repository there.

> (3) packaging inspired by those of ppxlib and ssreflect ;
> (4) lintian finds so many things to complain about!

There are many that are present in many OCaml packages... but, why did
you mark libelpi-ocaml-dev as arch:all? This is an obvious error which,
when fixed, would remove many Lintian errors.

> Comments and corrections are very welcome,

This is more a comment on upstream, but I cannot not say it: using
camlp5 and ppxlib at the same time seems very strange to me.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane


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