Control: tags -1 -moreinfo +confirmed On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 22:05 +0200, Kyle Robbertze wrote: > On 2019/02/09 16:08, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > On Sun, 2018-12-16 at 23:58 +0200, Kyle Robbertze wrote: > > > The current liquidsoap package in stable segfaults imediately on > > > run. > > > Details are in bug #812591. The segfault is due to Ocaml version > > > 4.02 > > > which is present in stable. The fix upstream has been applied > > > here > > > (sourced from Ubuntu where it has been working since 17.10). It > > > is > > > part of the version currently in buster and unstable. > > > > Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. > > No worries, we all get busy :)
Apparently so. *sigh* [...] > > If a package is incompatible with a newer version of Ocaml, is > > there no > > way of indicating this via e.g. dependency relationships, or the > > package somehow indicating which versions of Ocaml it is compatible > > with? This seems like the sort of thing that could also cause > > issues > > with partial upgrades between stable releases. > > With this fix, it is compatible with newer Ocaml versions and the new > version in buster and unstable are too. As far as I can tell, there > have > been no issues with newer versions outside of this. The common > convention seems to be to declare an un-versioned or minimum version > dependency on Ocaml and expect it to work with future versions. > OK, I guess we can go with this. Sorry for the delay (again). Regards, Adam
