Bug#1073289: OCaml 5.2.0
Hi,
Le dimanche 16 juin 2024 à 07:36 +0200, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
> Source: ocaml
> Severity: normal
> User: debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ocaml-5.2.0-transition
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you may have seen from my recent commits and uploads, I've started
> to prepare the transition of OCaml from the version currently in
> unstable, 4.14.1, to 5.2.0.
Yes, thanks!
> The 5.x series feature a rewrite of significant parts of the runtime
> to support multicore and effects.
>
> I've uploaded 5.2.0-1~exp1 to experimental:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ocaml&suite=experimental&compact=compact
>
> It FTBFS on armel, m68k and ppc64 (and has not yet been built on
> alpha and hurd-amd64):
> - for armel, I've submitted a bug report upstream:
> https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/13234
> - for ppc64, the failure is due to ppc64 not being a native arch any
> more
> - I have not yet investigated the other failures
>
> I've rebuilt all (relevant) packages with this new version; the
> results are available at the following address:
>
> http://ocaml.debian.net/transitions/ocaml-5.2.0/
>
> In particular, there are currently 117 (out of 390) missing packages,
> mostly because of FTBFS (or exhaustion of allocated resources). A
> graphical visualisation of the situation can be seen at:
>
> http://ocaml.debian.net/transitions/ocaml-5.2.0/missing.pdf
>
Impressive!
> I'm now asking for help from other maintainers to improve the
> situation... I've identified 3 big clusters:
> - camlp4/ocamlnet: I will have a look in the next weeks
.
> - elpi/ssreflect: Julien, can you have a look?
Yes.
> - liquidsoap: Kyle, can you have a look?
.
> Of course, any extra help is welcome.
>
> I'm opening a bug report to keep track of this matter.
Good.
Cheers,
JP
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