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Re: transition to ocaml 3.10



On 8/21/07, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:23:29PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I use 'advi' and care about it, and I noticed that it's not in the
> > list[1]. Is the list comprehensive?
>
> It is up to bug / strangeness in the interested packages :-)
> In particular I just noticed that advi does not declare a direct
> build-dep on ocaml, but relies on the transitivity of
> ocaml-best-compilers. Hence it is missing from the list. I'll fix the
> package (or the script generating the page).

Another package in that category is mtasc, which build-deps on ocaml,
ocaml-best-compilers, ocaml-findlib, libextlib-ocaml-dev, but isn't in
the list.

> Anyhow, advi is one of the packages which are not particularly
> problematic for the transition, since they do not depend at runtime on
> any ocaml package, they just need to be rebuilt and only to ensure they
> won't FTBFS (which is a rare happening).

mtasc depends on ocaml-base-nox-3.09.2, but only on some platforms,
presumably it should be on the list??

-- 
bye,
pabs

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