On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:43:35 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:30:41PM +0200, Georges Mariano wrote: > > Would it be possible to set up an entry in the BTS for > > "debian-ocaml-maint" where general bugs (i.e not related to a > > specific package) may be stored ... > > I doubt, our community is too smal, anyway ... Ok, but BTW, this has nothing to do with the size of the related community (just need to have a dummy package debian-ocaml-maint, of course correcting these bugs is not mandatory since there is no maintainer...) > > Please build the packages for woody (>stable< release) *first* > > > > and, why not, please provide one "experimental" source (if one is > > needed) [may be by using something like Savannah to have a common > > repository (or somewhere in debian.org's world)] >From my point of view, the following does not make sense > These are not bugs, debian practice requires that new packages are > uploaded to (and therefor built for) unstable, I don't understand why you say "therefor..."!? "unstable" is just a repository area (not a running machine AFAIK). So, of course package have to be uploaded there but they only have to be built for the client machines (e.g. mine ;-) which may be potato/woody/sarge... Well, do you mean that autobuilders are running sarge ?? (which may be a "good" explanation of what you said) > only when really > needed packages are built and uploaded to stable directly. This is not what I meant. In other words, to be more precise, if you build your package in a woody/chroot, your packages will reach "unstable" with the strictly neeeded dependencies (in this case, ocaml-ioxml will be also **correctly** built, uploaded into sarge, but with the dependance on ocaml-3.04 not ocaml-3.06). Of course, If your are not interested in providing packages with the minimal dependencies, well, go ahead... and users have to wait sarge to become the new stable release. Cheers -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (33) 03 20 43 84 06 INRETS, 20 rue Élisée Reclus fax: (33) 03 20 43 83 59 BP 317 -- 59666 Villeneuve d'Ascq http://www3.inrets.fr/estas/mariano
