On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:28:36PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:43:52PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > BTW, please don't forget to use correct dependencies with every ocaml > > package that use bytecode code, even if it is standalone code, it should > > depend on ocaml-base-3.06, not some other strange stuff. Especially all > > older (well those in woody at least) such package that do not have both > > the ocaml-base (>= 3.04) and ocaml-base (<< 3.05) dependencies are > > _BROKEN_. But then they are in woody, nothing much we can do on this. > > Should we really always restrict dependency to one particular > upstream version of ocaml? That would be safest, I agree. On the
It is recomended by upstream, and all manner of things will break if it is not done. > other hand it will prevent a new upstream version of ocaml to go > into testing unless all packages compiled into bytecode are > ready to go with it. Well, this is a problem i agree, but then, i prefer all packages entering testing at the same time (that is what we have testing for in the first place) than having packages in testing that expect a 3.04 ocamlrun and finding an 3.06 one. A solution for this would be, when a new ocaml is released (3.07 for example), to package it as ocaml version 3.07, and additionally repackage ocaml 3.06 as ocaml-old-3.06 or something such, which will provide the ocaml-base-3.06 needed by the packages containing 3.06 bytecode executables. Well, maybe it is too heavy, maybe we would only need to keep ocaml-base, but then, we would need all the libraries (well, at least the stublibs) and we need to keep a compiler suite around to rebuild such library packages in order to fix bugs or such. All in all, it can be done, but i don't really know if it would be needed (But then this would mean moving /usr/lib/ocaml to /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07), i don't think this is a change i am ready to handle with the current 3.06, maybe when there is a new release. And we could well go with a full support of multiple ocaml releases if we go this way. There was something else as well, but i forgot it ... BTW, i am building ocaml 3.06-6.1 for ia64, and will upload it yet this evening, this would let only the sparc package. Friendly, Sven Luther
