Bug#899189: nmu: unison_2.48.3-1
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 15:00 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> On 06/07/2018 03:15, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
[...]
> > > with extra unfriendly debug messages (hey, look at those in the
> > > github
> > > bug tracker, the ones we wanted to get rid of).
> > >
> > > I thought I'd mention the possibly surprising outcome for people
> > > not
> > > following debian-release@ closely.
> >
> > Also, that seems to completely invalidate the on-disk cache, which
> > is
> > likely the reason why the first run with an upgraded version (on
> > either
> > side, by the way) can take several (dozens of) minutes instead of a
> > couple of seconds.
>
> Indeed. Care must be taken at each upgrade of Unison, I think Unison
> users are aware of that. This is not specific to Debian. What was
> specific to Debian was the situation of Unison compiled with a
> version
> of OCaml different from the one that is being distributed alongside,
> which this binNMU is meant to fix.
>
> > It might have been a good idea to mention that in the binNMU
> > request. It
> > might also be a good idea to document those consequences in some
> > way.
>
> Sorry. Where would be a good place to document this, now?
If it had been noticed earlier, I'd have suggested a source upload with
a NEWS file explaining the issues.
We /could/ add a note to the point release announcement mail, although
that's a fairly unusual occurrence for an individual package.
Regards,
Adam
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