Re: Backporting ocaml-dune without circular dependencies

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Dear Jason,

Le 31/10/2023 à 01:53, Jason Gross a écrit :
> I'm trying to backport ocaml-dune on launchpad, but it seems the way 
> ocaml-dune is set up makes this impossible; ocaml-dune build-depends on 
> libcsexp-ocaml-dev <!pkg.ocaml-dune.nocsexp>, but ocaml-csexp depends on 
> ocaml-dune (>= 1.11).  Is there any way to (mostly automatically) 
> backport ocaml-dune to focal i386, trusty, bionic, and xenial?  (The ppa 
> I'm attempting to do this in is here 
> <https://launchpad.net/~jgross-h/+archive/ubuntu/coq-8.17-daily/+packages>.)

The version of ocaml-dune currently in unstable does no longer have the 
build-dependency on libcsexp-ocaml-dev.


Cheers,

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Stéphane