On Fri, 15 May 2026 07:02:37 +0200 =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Glondu?= < [email protected]> wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: important > > Dear Release Team, > > > Until ben 1.17, build profiles were completely ignored by "ben > monitor" (which generates transition tracker pages) when computing > dependency levels. > > In dh-ocaml 3.0, I introduced a build profile (pkg.dh-ocaml.bootstrap) > that has build-dependency cycles and cannot be built when > bootstrapping or doing an OCaml transition. It should never be used on > buildds. It should not be taken into account in monitor. However it > currently is, and as a consequence 13 levels (or so) of the OCaml > permanent tracker page are collapsed into 1. > > In ben 1.18, I decided to evaluate build-dependencies as on buildds: > take first alternative of disjunctions, and assume no build > profiles. This introduced a regression with multiarch specifiers, > which I fixed in ben 1.19. > > > AFAIU, transition tracking pages are genenerated on respighi which > still runs bookworm and ben 0.10.1. The latest versions of ben do not > compile as-is on bookworm because of toolchain changes. > > Therefore, I recompiled the OCaml world from sid (albeit with OCaml > 5.4.1) on bookworm (enough to compile ben): > > https://ocaml.debian.net/backports/20260514/ > > Trying the resulting ben on respighi, I faced a regression with > projectb import, which I fixed in ben 1.20. The resulting binaries can > be found in: > > https://ocaml.debian.net/backports/20260514/repo/pool/ben/ > > On respighi, one can take only: > > - /usr/bin/ben > - /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ocaml/5.4.1/ben/templates/debianrt > > from ben_*.deb above, and run ben with BEN_TEMPLATES_DIR appropriately > set. (I do not recommend directly installing packages from the > repository above on respighi.) > > > Alternatively, I backported the changes from ben 1.18 and 1.19 into a > "bookworm" branch in ben: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ben/-/commits/bookworm > > It compiles on bookworm, and the resulting package should be directly > (system-)installable on respighi...but is based on the old 0.10.1 > version. My recommendation would be using a non-system install of > 1.20 instead, as explained above. > > > Other changes in 0.10.1..1.20 that might be of interest for the
