Hello Andreas, On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> in the Debian Med Covid-19 sprint we have a set of packages that can be > used to help researching the disease. To this set of packages belongs > pplacer which I injected into Salsa[1]. I admit I never packaged > software written in ocaml and my initial attempt was probably weak. It > ends with: I had a look at this, but without much success. It seems that this software is a bit out of date and needs updating to current versions of libraries and the build tools. I do not know much about ocamlbuild, but to me it looks as if the author was trying to do crazy stuff, like generating ocamlbuild configuration lines for all installed ocamlfind packages *installed on the system* (ocamlfind is an ocaml helper tool, it has its own notion of packages). I tried to patch the find_packages function by setting its result to a fixed list ["batteries"; "csv"] but then ran into a typing error when using the csv ocaml library. The software seems to depend on an old version of that library (1.2.2, according to opam-requirements.txt) while the current version of that library in debian is 2.4. Sorry. Maybe someone else on the ocaml-team can help ? Cheers -Ralf.
