Bug#512834: ITP: ocaml-autoconf -- autoconf macros for OCaml
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:13:20AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:42:52AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > we also have Jean-Christophe Filliatre's configure.in and
> > Makefile.in templates that are currenly in the ocaml-tools package,
> > for lack of any better place for it. Maybe they can be packaged
> > together with ocaml-autoconf, or ocaml-autoconf can be part of the
> > ocaml-tools package?
>
> Interesting, I didn't know that. Those two files should definitely be
> companions of ocaml-autoconf, and I presume they initially were meant
> as such.
>
> Jean-Christophe has already agreed in relicensing ocaml-autoconf
> macros, I presume there will be no problem in doing the same with
> those snippets and distributing them together with ocaml-autoconf.
>
> Regarding the packaging, I've no objections in adding all this to
> ocaml-tools, but I had the impression you were in the past
> "discouraging" multiple-source Debian packages. In fact that's one of
> the reasons for me to propose a separate package. But if you are fine
> with adding another bit to ocaml-tools I've no objections whatsoever.
Sure, go ahead :-) The package has become quite empty anyway since ocamlmakefile
moved out, and ocamldot got integrated into ocaml upstream.
The only problem with multiple upstream packages is that tools like watch do
not work (to my knowledge), and that you always have to cook a new tarball
from upstream sources. There have been rumours of extending dpkg to multiple
source tarballs, which have would solve the problem once for all, but ASFAIK
this is still in the planning stage.
-Ralf.
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