On 14-05-2009, Romain Beauxis <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Thursday 14 May 2009 23:45:56 David MENTRE, vous avez écrit : >> Dependencies are nice to have (code reuse, security fix as you >> underlined it) but can be a nightmare if they are two numerous. This >> is usually not the case on Debian and Ubuntu thanks to Debian >> developers but this is not the case on other distributions. Anyway, >> this general issue is not related to Debian packaging. ;-) > > Well, in fact it is.. > > The reason why I want to switch to xmlm is that we integrated xml-light in > our > project using its findlib support. Unfortunately, this support was a debian- > specific addition, so that users compiling xml-light from source could not > compile use it with findlib... > > I had then to given them patches, but could never suceed in propagating this > upstream (well in fact there is a sort of broken support in the CVS version > for what I remember, but everything has been unmaintained for ages now..) > > Hence, shipping ocaml modules with findlib added in debian can also lead to > issues if it is not added upstream at some point. >
I just checked out xml-light CVS. It seems that there is a META.in (it looks likes Debian one). There seems that xml-light is not so unmaintained, but they just forgot to release new version ;-) Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
