Bug#1006301: unison-2.51+4.13.1 -addversionno is broken
On 2022-02-23 00:23:17 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Like with unison-2.51+4.11.1 (Debian bug 990694), -addversionno is
> broken:
>
> $ unison-2.51+4.13.1 -addversionno foo ssh://localhost/foo2
> Unison 2.51.5 (ocaml 4.13.1): Contacting server...
> Connected to zira (from ::1)
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid [x86_64]
> DISPLAY: localhost:10.0
> zsh:1: command not found: unison-2.51
> Fatal error: Lost connection with the server
>
> Since the symlink unison-2.51 should currently point to the stable
> version unison-2.51+4.11.1 (due to the old bug 990694) in order to
> be able to synchronize with Debian/stable machines, there is no
> real workaround. Fortunately, it seems that unison-2.51+4.11.1 and
> unison-2.51+4.13.1 are completely compatible, no that nothing breaks
> yet. But with a potentially incompatible future version, this could
> make unison unusable when one has both Debian 11 bullseye and unstable
> (future Debian 12) remote machines.
Note: this applies to 2.51-based version only, as it seems that
2.52.0 will use "ocaml-independent protocols" according to a message
in the unison-users mailing-list.
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