On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:13:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > As you may already have noticed, ocaml 3.07 entered testing today (or > maybe yesterday already). This brings us to a migration time from one > month since ocaml 3.07 has been released, which is not bad at all. > > So, the mini-freeze is over, people can reupload new packages, and they > will enter testing in timely fashion. > > What remains to be done on my packages is : > > o an Advi overhaul, will do this weekend. > > o upload fixed lablgl, lablgtk & lablgtk2 packages. > > o fix the ocaml bignum licence issue. > > For the latest point. It has been about one month next week that i have > contacted Bdale Garbee and that he transmitted our request to the HP > legal team, and i have had no response, despite having pinged Bdale 3 > times in the last weeks or so. Maybe they simply need more time, but i > am a bit disapointed by HP on this subject, especially given their > claimed debian support. > > Anyway, i had plans to remove bignum this weekend, but a recent post of > Jacques on the caml list said that Xavier already has a fixed version > working in CVS, and i have asked Xavier if it would be ok to use this as > a replacement to bignum for the debian package, or if it is too early > yet. I have written Xavier today, and i will wait for his response > before taking action on this.
There seems to be a bug with ocaml 3.07+2 and emacs21 though. I am investigating this one. Friendly, Sven Luther
