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Re: OCaml support for mcl (Was: Help with mcl needed: util/rand.h missing)



On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:47:01PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Am Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 01:32:59AM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> > <Dropping upstream from CC)
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:17:38AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > Shayan, do you think you can fix this patch you once obtained from some
> > > project that seems to have stalled since 9 years?  Otherwise I'd tend to
> > > remove the patch and thus the OCaml support again.
> > 
> > I am interested in knowing as to why are we keeping ocaml support in the first place?
> > In other words, what is the purpose of the patch?
> > (Upstream project seems to be written in C)
> 
> I'm in favour of droping the OCaml patch.

I guess the Ocaml patch was needed for pplacer. Now pplacer FTBFS due to removed
ocaml patch/binpkg. See Bug#1024889

We need to fix this before the cruft removal happens.

> > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl/-/blob/master/debian/patches/OCamlSupport.patch
> > > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl/-/jobs/3428232

-- 
Best,
Nilesh

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