CCing Stephane Glondu -- would it be possible to request a backport of 1.2.2 to Debian Stable? It's the last major distro distributing the older version of OPAM, and it's an increasingly difficult maintenance burden for us.
regards, Anil > On 7 Jul 2016, at 07:50, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+oc...@le-gall.net> wrote: > > opam 1.2.0 is the version distributed with Debian Jessie (current stable) > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/opam > > Deprecating it, will prevent Debian Stable users to use the "easy to install" > package. > > Le mer. 6 juil. 2016 à 10:29, Thomas Gazagnaire <tho...@gazagnaire.org> a > écrit : > I think it is time to deprecate opam 1.2.0. What do you think? > > See https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/6888 for a recent issue: it > doesn’t understand the `pinned` variable. This could be fixed by adding a > rewriting layer between 1.2.2 and 1.2.0 and adding a redirection based on the > version number (we already do that for opam 1.1) but that’s a lot of efforts > for not much gains. So I’m in favour of simply not supporting 1.2.0 anymore. > > If you are still using 1.2.0 please complain now :-) > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > opam-devel mailing list > opam-devel@lists.ocaml.org > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel > _______________________________________________ > opam-devel mailing list > opam-devel@lists.ocaml.org > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list opam-devel@lists.ocaml.org http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
