On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:43:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:21:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:17:04PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote:
A new version of ocaml (3.09.2) is available. Since the caml libraries
are binary-incompatible between releases, this means that we have to
rebuild all the caml libraries before caml can hit testing. Do you see
any problem if we start a transition to ocaml 3.09.2?
It's not clear to me whether there would be problems. Please hold off on
starting this transition until we have a handle on which packages need to be
updated to go into etch for the X11R7 transition; I don't *think* any
ocaml-using packages are affected, but better safe than sorry.
I also don't remember any ocaml packages which where in /usr/X11R6 and co,
altough we have a few packages which do depend on X (labltk, lablgtk2, etc).
There is the issue of the rpath though, which is removed for some packages,
but maybe not for all, and which by default sets the rpath to /usr/X11R6
stuff.
Maybe we should make sure 3.09.2 has no rpath at all, or move this rpath to
/usr/lib or something ?
Packages should ideally have no rpath at all, as mentioned by policy. If
this is too difficult to achieve, an rpath of either /usr/X11R6/lib or
/usr/lib should be mostly harmless.