On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:46:14AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > 04:24 < vorlon> hey all. Where are we on being able to close bug #338435? > 04:25 < vorlon> it turns out KDE needs ocaml to be pushed first, because > abiword-plugins uses gtkmathview and abiword and koffice both depend on > libwpd. > 04:26 < vorlon> (so, in fact, they need to be pushed in at the same time, > hurrah.) > Well, i guess this is good, as it seems ocaml is being used in more outside > projects, there is also the other package of Jeffries which is linked to KDE. > For info, 338435 is the blocker bug i put to avoid ocaml 3.09.0 entering > testing without us noticing. From discussions on IRC, there are three outstanding issues for ocaml: - FTBFS on hppa. This is already a separate RC bug against ocaml (342704). - the ABI-breaking fix for cduce; it's my understanding that this patch has not yet been included in the ocaml package in unstable, and including it would require rebuilding all of the ocaml packages, but that this doesn't necessarily have to wait for ocaml 3.09.1. - a handful of packages that still build-depend on ocaml-3.08.3 or similar, and require sourceful uploads for the ocaml transition. These packages are advi, approx, camlrpc, cduce, cryptokit, lablgtk, missinglib, mlgtk, ocamldsort, pycaml, spamoracle, syslog-ocaml. Each of these packages should have a separate RC bug filed against it if there are no immediate plans to upload them. Of these packages, only ocamldsort has significant reverse-dependencies; so if the maintainers are not reactive, the other packages ought to be removed from testing to allow this transition to complete, and catch up again on their own time. None of the above issues should be particularly difficult to resolve, and none warrant keeping a dummy bug open against ocaml (except that the bugs from point 3 should probably be filed before closing this, I guess). Also, if cduce is the only package broken by issue #2, I'm not sure we should hold up the transition for it either at this point. What is needed to get an ocaml upload to fix #1, and possibly #2 as well? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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