On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:57:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > Stéphane Glondu: > > On 29/09/2016 09:28, Ralf Treinen wrote: > >>> 3. Should we upload ocamlbuild first, or ocaml 4.03.0 first? > >> > >> This would be part of a general 4.02->4.03 transition. Are there any > >> plans for that ? New versions of packages of the toolchain would be > >> uploaded to experimental, first. > > > > Did you try to rebuild all packages using the new ocaml/ocamlbuild? Once > > this is done, a slot must be asked to the release team (e.g. bug #789133). > > >
> I haven't done a transition myself before, I don't really know the process > and it would be good if other people could guide/help with it. I didn't mean that we need a transition for ocamlbuild alone, but that it would probably be part of a general ocaml transition. My question whether this is planned was to the list, not specifically to Ximin. > >>> 4. Currently ocamlbuild hard-depends on ocaml-native-compilers, do you > >>> have suggestions for this to work on architectures where it's not > >>> available? > >> > >> That would be ocaml-best-compilers, but why do you need that ? > >> ocamlbuild should not be that expensive to build. > > > > This point is critical. Many packages depend on ocamlbuild, we don't want > > them to become native-only. > > > > I fixed this in > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/ocamlbuild.git/commit/?id=4df02c1e1d6025469c42e653cba30481b1499366 > > I had "ocaml-native-compilers | ocaml" as a Build-Dep, but I'll replace this > with "ocaml-best-compilers" now that I know about it, thanks. I still don't understand why you need this. ocaml-native-compilers just provides the *.opt versions of the compilers, it has nothing to do with the ability to compile to native code or not. That is, unless ocamlbuild uses presence of *.opt in a wrong way. -Ralf.
