Well, we are in the middle of packaging 4.04.0, so at least this bug will be 
fixed in that one.

Or do you think we should hold it off for a few more versions "just in case" 
there are more bugs?

X

Pierre Boutillier:
> Hi,
> (Disclaimer: I'm nobody in debian, I'm here because, for years, I tell myself 
> I should help maintaining ocaml-packages but I've never taken the plunge).
> 
> I would like to be stronger in favour of doing so but I'm afraid the answer 
> has to be "Don't do it":
> Oasis 0.4.7 does not work with 4.03.0+flambda (see 
> https://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1674&group_id=54&atid=291
>  )
> For now, there is Oasis 0.4.6 in Debian which is compatible with flambda and 
> a workaround for the issue is trivial: 
> https://github.com/ocaml/oasis/commit/712e751d47f7e3f014c21389a09b08791565237f
> 
> Anyway, the bug in flambda (fixed in 4.04.0 by 
> https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/82e8ce75bd8a1c9e9f989903ae74928846b31b15
>  (I have no idea whether the patch applies upon 4.03.0)) it reveals looks to 
> me too serious to make all ocaml code compiled in Debian leaving with it.
> 
> That's sad.
> Pierre B.
> 
>> Le 7 nov. 2016 à 18:54, Ximin Luo <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> I just noticed I didn't enable flambda yet for the 4.03 release. We can do 
>> that for the next upload, before too many things are compiled with it (it's 
>> binary-incompatible with non-flambda things). Any objections?
>>
>> https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/flambda.html
>>
>> X
>>

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