Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > Out of curiosity, why is this sourceful upload done with ocaml packages > where almost everything else in the pool is able to work with binNMUs > for transitional reasons? Sorry, I don't get your reasoning for > complicating things explecitly through build dependencies that are > tighter set than they would be needed.
Sourceful uploads are needed with arch:all packages. A new version of ocaml might also break existing packages, and a sourceful upload is also needed in this case (in the specific case of mldonkey, the configure script has to be made aware of the new version of ocaml). It was also easier to upgrade libraries to a new upstream release during an OCaml transition, because breakages couldn't be seen in the dependencies (this is this exact issue that is solved with the 0.9 series of dh-ocaml... see [1]... but as I said, the change is very intrusive). But we try to use binNMUs as much as possible. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/jfla10-dh-ocaml.pdf Cheers, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
