On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:18:19PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:15:14PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I suppose that the dependency should be on ocaml-base-nox. Not sure. It is > > either libdbi-ocaml or libpcre-ocaml which pull it in. > > > > A bit of checking shows : > > > > Package: libpcre-ocaml > > Maintainer: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Version: 5.08.1-1 > > Depends: ocaml-base-3.08, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libpcre3 (>= 4.5) > > > > So this is pcre which is problematic, i believe. I have the impression that > > pcre is pure string checking, and thus needs only ocaml-base-nox-3.08, but > > please someone check it and i will NMU. Stefano is biking all over europe, and > > will not be back until end of August. > > I had a snoop around the build files here: > > http://www.oefai.at/~markus/ocaml_sources/pcre-ocaml-5.08.1/ > > and I can't see how PCRE could depend on anything other than the PCRE > C library and GNU make (to build) ...
Ok, this probably sounds reasonable then. I will make a new upload later today. > > > Why does it want so much of X (this is a server)? Why is postgres > > > going to be removed!! > > > > No idea about this one. libpcre-ocaml-dev does the right -nox thingy, but it > > pulls in libpcre-ocaml. about postgresql, no idea, but apt-cache is your > > friend. > > I've discussed this with John. My belief is that libdbi-ocaml-dev > should only suggest the driver packages (eg. libpgsql-ocaml-dev, and > in particular, libmysql-ocaml-dev). If you have libdbi-ocaml-dev installed, and no driver or only some of them, will you still be able to use libdbi-ocaml-dev to develop software ? to build mod-caml for example ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
