Stéphane Glondu: > On 31/10/2016 08:35, Ximin Luo wrote: >> I think we might have to make ocaml-best-compilers a real package, so that >> we can have versioned Build-Depends: rules on it. >> >> Currently the ocamlbuild in experimental is using ocaml 4.02.3 from sid. I >> need to force it to compile against ocaml 4.03.0 instead so that it >> generates 4.03.0-versioned .cmi files, otherwise the camlp4 build fails (and >> others will too). >> >> However, if I simply add "ocaml-best-compilers (>= 4.03.0)" into >> Build-Depends I still get an error like: >> >> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: ocaml-best-compilers >> (>= 4.03.0) >> >> so it looks like we can't do this for virtual packages. (Yes, I do have >> 4.03.0 installed For Sure Totally). >> >> The alternative is to just say "ocaml-native-compilers (>= 4.03.0) | >> ocaml-interp (>= 4.03.0)" explicitly but this kind of defeats the point of >> having ocaml-best-compilers in the first place. > > Sorry for jumping in late in the discussion. > > I am wondering why we have a separate ocaml-native-compilers binary package > in the first place. It has been so since the beginning of the git history in > 2003. > > I propose to merge ocaml-native-compilers into ocaml-nox altogether. As a > transitional step, ocaml-nox would provide ocaml-best-compilers and > ocaml-native-compilers but eventually we could get rid of that. This has been > on my TODO-list for a while, but I didn't take time to first start the > discussion. > > For the record, on unstable/amd64, ocaml-nox is 46.2 MB and > ocaml-native-compilers is 15.9 MB (and has no additional dependencies). In a > clean chroot, installing ocaml-nox brings 93.1 MB of dependencies. Adding > 15.9 MB to that sounds harmless to me. > > What do you guys think of this plan? >
I'm not against the idea, but we are trying to juggle a bunch of other things at this time so I'd say leave it for later. We did discover a legitimate apt-cudf bug, and once that's fixed ocamlbuild and all this complex virtual dependency business should Just Work. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
