Re: Bug#1073983: transition: ocaml
Hi,
Le jeudi 15 août 2024 à 21:52 +0200, Paul Gevers a écrit :
>
> On 13-08-2024 08:03, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> > Howevever, many of them are related to the fact that i386
> > and armhf are no longer native (ocaml 5 dropped support for native
> > compilation on 32-bit architectures), hence the corresponding
> > uninstallability or autopkgtest issues for coq-related packages are
> > irrelevant. Is britney smart enough to cope with this?
>
> If the excuses report an autopkgtest failure, britney2 didn't do what
> you were hoping. ocaml builds on all architectures, so how should I
> understand your statement? Are these non-installability and
> autopkgtest
> issues all for source packages that build arch:all binaries? Than
> that
> needs a hint from our side. Do any of these source packages build
> arch
> specific binaries on those architectures that no longer work, than
> those
> need to be removed from unstable (reportbug ftp.debian.org).
>
> Maybe I don't understand what you meant exactly (sorry for not having
> read the full backlog).
The OCaml compiler has two compilation modes: native and vm.
The new version disabled the native mode on 32bits architectures.
Some packages that were ok with the last version aren't anymore.
Hope that makes things clearer,
J.Puydt
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