On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:32:04AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, my plan with control.in, will have the dependencies set to the right > > thing when you run the debian/rules debian/control, depending on what you > > have > > currently installed when you do it, and as i suppose you will have the right > > versions of both ocaml and the library installed, everything should be fine. > > Ok, that's a fair assumption. I like this idea and I will convert my > packages to debian/control.in.
:) Ok, i think we can make this policy now then, any other comment ? > > I mean, when there is a abi bump, there is usually not much than a "Rebuilt > > with ocaml xxx" entry in the changelog, no ? > > Well, this is rarely true. Often libraries and tools do change with new Ah, i guess i am luck to rebuild packages for which it mostly works (lablgl, lablgtk2, camlzip, ...) :) > release of the ocaml compilers, for example during this transition: > - almost all libraries and tools that deal with camlp4 need to be > changed and will have new corresponding upstream releases > - findlib changed making unnecessary an old patch of mine which added > support for directories containing findlib configuration snippets > - cduce changed a lot to support -for-pack Ok, but these are normal live cycle for the libraries in question, but is this kind of change also something that would happen in point releases, i think not (and you also not). > You can think that this is a coincidence, but ocaml history tells us > that for one reason or another, releases of ocaml implie releases of > tools and libraries. > > In the remaining cases where those things do not happen (e.g. when we > migrated form 3.08 -> 3.08.1 IIRC) your approach would work. Indeed. But even for major releases, an automated rebuild-but-not-uploaded may pinpoint the major problems, whcih usually happen at build time. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
