Re: Please consider perl4caml
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:14:42PM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> The package 'perl4caml' was orphaned a few weeks ago while the OCaml
> team was transitioning to a new version. This combined with a bad
> build-dep left the package unusable (RC #307574) since it was not
> transitioned too.
>
> I have since adopted the package and a new version was uploaded to sid
> on May 3rd. This is a new upstream release which fixes a few bugs, most
> importantly a bug in the memory handling code which resulted in
> segfaults. The only other change to the package was that the patches
> were moved from the .diff.gz to being handled by dpatch (so debian/
> could be stored in svn).
You seem actually to have deleted the changelog entry of the last
upload, please revert that:
-perl4caml (0.3.15-2) unstable; urgency=low
+perl4caml (0.9.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
- * Orphaning this package.
+ * Missed John's makefile patch, added back with dpatch
+ * Makefile now detects absence of ocamlopt
+ * Policy => 3.6.1.0
+ * lintian suggested typo fixes
- -- John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:58:19 -0500
+ -- Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> Tue, 3 May 2005 22:03:09 -0400
+
>From a first glance I don't see this new upstream version as approvable
for sarge inclusion. Would it be possible to only extract the memory
handling fix and do a t-p-u upload for that (and the RC bug of course)?
Gruesse,
--
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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