> On 16 Mar 2015, at 00:54, Louis Gesbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Green light from me!  To be clear, does the 1.2 branch now reflect the final 
>> RC version?  I can build 1.2.1 RPM/Debs from that.
> 
> Yes, I updated it as I pushed the RC2, and your PPAs (2015-03-04) are 
> up-to-date.
> 
>> I think we should make a concerted effort to get 1.2.1 upstream into Ubuntu 
>> so that it hits the next LTS cycle.  Hopefully it isn't too late for the 
>> Debian release cycle too...
> 
> Debian: we can see with our friends in the team, but as Jessie is in complete 
> freeze at the moment and 1.2.1 doesn't fix any critical bugs, I wouldn't 
> count on it (https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html)
> 
> Ubuntu: Indeed -- (sigh) hopefully we'll get more response than on 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opam/+bug/1401346

I hope they take something not from Debian...  can we get something into Debian 
unstable that won't make it into Testing at this stage?

> 
>> There's just one thing that would be useful, but may not be practical.  I'd 
>> really like to run the Travis tests with OPAMSTRICT set so that warnings 
>> turn into hard failures.  However, we currently hit this:
>> 
>> [WARNING] Directory /Users/travis/.opam/system/lib/camlp4 is not empty, not
>>          removing
>> 
> 
> May be counter-intuitive, but there is no warnings-as-errors flags, 
> `--strict` only relates to errors in files (failing on first error rather 
> than ignoring the file -- if possible). That may, in this case, be more 
> convenient though !
> 
>> message all the time, and it's hard to fix I think.  Any thoughts on whether 
>> there's a workaround in opam-repository to make this message go away, or 
>> whether OPAM 1.2.1 should show it at all?
> 
> I can remove it altogether; what hold me back is that it usually doesn't 
> appear in normal usage, and can provide meaningful information that I don't 
> see how to make available otherwise. Hopefully 1.3.1 will have file tracking, 
> removing the need for this.

That all actually sounds ok without needing any change in the RC then -- how 
about pushing an OPAMSTRICT=1 to the (allowed-to-fail) 1.2.1 matrix in the 
current opam-repository?

-anil
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