On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:10:18AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:58:52AM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Do you hav a concrete example? It looks like a problem with applications > > Just try to build an application that use both netclient and netstring > in current unstable. > > This is _not_ a problem with shared objects, this is a problem related > to the way ocaml ensure that type information are correct. > Each ocaml library keeps a table of md5sums of all .cmi against it was > built, if you try to use a .cmi with the same name but with a different > md5sum ocaml compiler will fail. > > Please not Jerome that this is not a problem to be discussed here, this i suppose you wante to say _note_ and not _not_ ?
> Here we have to discuss which is the better why for debian to live with > this compiler (bug?)feature. IMO the best way is using versioned > dependencies between libraries so that a DD doesn't forget to rebuild > all libraries which depend on the one he is rebuilding. Yes, i think that also. Friendly, Sven Luther

