Bug#604933: libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev: bad findlib package name

[Stéphane Glondu]

severity 604933 important
thanks

Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, ygrek a écrit :
 Justification: renders package unusable

This is overly exaggerated. The findlib package and shared stublibs are
not upstream features, and the package can still be used as a regular
library with third-party programs. This is at worst a violation of a
should in the OCaml packaging policy.

As said in [1], properly fixing this package would also mean renaming
the package, which escapes the scope of a freeze exception. I won't
partially fix this package to fit the release team's criteria, and the
issues raised here are not RC IMHO. However, I put in CC the Debian
OCaml Maintainers mailing-list in case someone wants to have a look.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/08/msg01753.html


Cheers,

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Bug#604933: libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev: bad findlib package name

[ygrek]

Package: libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev
Version: 2.7-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

$ file /usr/lib/ocaml/METAS/META.llvm-2.7 
/usr/lib/ocaml/METAS/META.llvm-2.7: ASCII text
$ ocamlfind query llvm-2.7
ocamlfind: Package `llvm-2.7' not found

Dot is not allowed in findlib package names (it is used to delimit
subpackages).

Moreover META file references 'llvm' in requires, this is wrong too.

Moreover package as a whole doesn't provide stublibs so
it is not usable in toplevel and bytecode (without -custom), this
applies to libllvm-ocaml-dev too.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev depends on:
ii  llvm-2.7-dev  2.7-6  Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM), 
ii  ocaml-base-nox [ocaml-base-no 3.11.2-1   Runtime system for OCaml bytecode 

libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libllvm-ocaml-2.7-dev suggests:
pn  llvm-2.7-doc  none (no description available)

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