Quoting Marcell Meszaros <[email protected]> (snt: 2024-03-23 07:22 +0100 CET) (rcv: 2024-03-23 07:22 +0100 CET): > On 17 March 2024 14:30:01 GMT+01:00, [email protected] wrote: > >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ocamlnet [2]: > > > >Broken for close to 1 year due to not being compatible with repo's > >ocaml 5, first published in May 2023. > > > >Upstream seems to be abandoned (developer only attends to their other > >projects). > > > >There has been a work-in-progress, partially viable port to ocaml 5, > >contributed to upstream in the form of a merge request 1.5 years ago, > >but it has been abandoned and ignored since. [a] > > > >That unfinished patch does not make this buildable. Also, now the code > >does not support the current gnutls, needed for https support in this > >library. > > > >Downstream dependents have either moved on to other solutions, or got > >discontinued 3+ years ago. (All AUR reverse dependencies have been > >submitted for deletion.) > > > >I think it's best to delete this package. > > > >[a]: https://gitlab.com/gerdstolpmann/lib- > >ocamlnet3/-/merge_requests/21 > > > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ > >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ocamlnet/ > > > The last package change is ill-conceived. The build stays broken. > > A package cannot depend on both 'ocaml' (v5) and 'ocaml4', as they conflict > with each other. Still not useful to keep this library that is EOL for 3+ > years.
I asked the author of ocamlnet, if it was planned to update it for OCaml5. The answer was yes. So far there is no time plan for that, but next week I may habe more information.
