Hello, On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Conrad Hughes wrote:
> I'm unfamiliar with how the Debian release process works internally, and > minimising the work involved in packaging unison is of course essential > — you're already saving all Debian users a huge amount of work by > packaging it, so thank you for that. > > At the moment because you're building with ocaml-4.01, the published > unison is backwards compatible but not forwards compatible; can you > continue to build unison with 4.01 now that Debian's on ocaml-4.02, or > is that going to become difficult as well? The problem is that any software used to build packages in a distribution (sid, in this case) must also be in the distribution. Hence, providing builds of unison produced with different ocaml versions implies having packages for different ocaml versions in sid. -Ralf.
