On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:22:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello everyone ... > > At apt-source : > > deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml ./ > > You can find the new ocaml packages version 3.06-16. After a bit of > testing from me and you (and upgrade testing) i will upload those to > debian/unstable. Once they are fully built on all arches (not before the > gcc-3.2/libc6 sparc bug is solved though), i will upload a ocaml (and > ocaml-base, ...) package which is empty but depends on the ocaml-3.06-1 > versions. This should solve the build dependencies we were > experimenting, and allow us to continue enjoying the rather clean > ocaml-3.06-1 dependencies we are using right now. > > It will also further facilitate the migration between one upstream > version of ocaml and the next, and is the same thing other are doing > (gcc for example). > > A current problem i have is with upgrading, i did not do any trick for > upgrading from ocaml to ocaml-3.06-1, but since the former provide the > later, it may cause problem. Maybe i should add a conflict: ocaml (< > 3.06-16) and also a replace: ocaml.
I have added the conflict and the replace, it upgrades smoothly, so please, add the above line to your apt-sources, and upgrade to it. It should go smoothly for everyone. Please provide feedback (on sucess and on failure) so i can upload it to unstable nextly. Friendly, Sven Luther
