On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:11:52AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > On 16/10/2017 08:32, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > one of the current blockers for the ocaml transition is ppx_deriving. > > The current version in sid (4.1) does not compile with ocaml 4.05 and > > should probably be upgraded to 4.2. This version, however, has a new > > dependency ppx_derivers [1,2] which AFAICS is not yet packaged in debian. > > Is anybody working on this ? If not, is there a plan ? We could either > > package ppx_derivers which will have to go through NEW, hence causing > > a further delay, or try to patch up ppx_deriving 4.1 to make it compile for > > now. Any opinions or ideas ? > > I think we should package ppx_derivers and ppx_deriving 4.2 directly. > Concerning the delay, I think ppx_deriving and its rdeps can be temporarily > removed from testing if they really delay the transition.
OK, I'll do that. For starters, ppx_derivers does not have a copyright statement, neither github nor opam seem to care about that. We also have to package ocaml-migrate-parsetree. Ralf.
