On 17-09-2009, Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A lot of work has been done during DebConf9 on dh-ocaml. But since then, > not so much. > > A big (and waited) feature is the automatic dependency generator. There > is also the ocaml dh plugin.
OK, this is partly my fault. I was busy with many other things. > > There is currently a known problem with the automatic dependency > generator that makes it impossible to use with arch:all packages (in a > nutshell: virtual package names are different on bytecode > architectures), and this has been blocking further development in this > direction for more than one month. This seems easy to fix; yet, nobody > has done it so far. > > Nonetheless, I propose to upload dh-ocaml and start the migration to > automatic dependencies (and open a bug explaining the issue with > arch:all packages, as a reminder). This is not a transition in the > release team's sense, and can be done incrementally. There are not so > many arch:all packages, and AFAIK, they are all executables. Moreover, > the situation will always be better than the current one (no ABI > checking whatsoever). > We can perfectly continue to build package and try the dependency generator for library packages. The only possible error is limited to arch:all non-library packages (e.g. headache). For these packages, dependency to libXXX-ocaml package will not be computed correctly. In this case, I recommend to just not use auto-dependency. FYI, what is missing to auto-dependencies: - split provides/depends between libXXX-ocaml(-dev)? into libXXX-ocaml-(native|byte)(-dev)?-ZZZZ (libXXX-ocaml-native(-dev)?-ZZZZ will only exist on native arch). - when computing dependencies ignore installed packages .md5sums - internal dependencies (between libXXX-ocaml and libXXX-ocaml-dev) should use version rather than checksum And what is on my wishlist: - end rewriting policy (job started, not finished) - dh_ocamlmeta: install debian/XXX.META to $(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR)/METAS and change its version - dh_ocamldir: create $(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR) in -dev package and $(OCAML_DLL_DIR) in non-dev package - dh_ocamlinstall: move files from debian/tmp/$(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR) to dev (*.cmxa, *.cmx, *.cmi...) and non-dev (*.cmxs, *.cma if *.cmxs, *.so...) - ajouter ocaml:ABI directly into the substvars > If nobody objects, I'm planning to upload dh-ocaml in one week or so and > proceed with the migration. Please do whatever polishing you want to do > by then. See: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OCamlTaskForce/DhOCamlTransition > I think we can go ahead. It won't generate too much error as long as we don't break arch:all packages. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
