On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:51:13AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:31:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Now, James Troup, which maintain the sparc and arm autobuilders did > > contact me and told me i should no more use virtual build-depends, and > > as i wanted some more info, and was a bit too insistent, he decided not > > to speak to me anymore :(((. > > Well James Troup contacted me too as you can see from the To: field of > the mail :-)
Mmm, didn't notice about this. > > autobuilders, and should best find another solution, or maybe someone > > else could approach James about the subject, maybe someone who had > > problems with his packages also, and try to get to the heart of what the > > problem really is. James was kind of saying that i am uninformed and that > > I've already sent him a mail asking for more information on the subject, > basically about the reason behind his mail, because a "please don't use > virtual build dependencies" message isn't really self-explaining :) No, it isn't. > I'm still waiting for an answer ... > > I suggest to wait just another day or two and then go for another > revolution getting rid of all virtual build dependencies, both on ocaml > package and between libraries. No, we will wait at least a week or two, a day is as nothing for James. Also, i don't think we should back pedal on this until we understand all of what is going on here, and the implications of it. > BTW, wait just a bit more patching the policy with my latest patch, we > will probably have to restate hit in term of versioned dependencies for > the 'build-dep' side. :((( Another example of not doing the right thing. I would much prefer fixing the auto-builders. BTW, do anyone know where the auto-builder source code is located. Friendly, Sven Luther
