Re: fix the world, make it a better place ...
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
>
> > The plan is to keep the ocaml-<version> depends. I will solve the
> > virtual depends by uploading a new ocaml-3.06 source package which
> > will
> > provide packages including the version name instead of the old
> > provides.
> > This should make the autobuilders happy (i hope) and allow us
> > installation of multiple simultaneous version of ocaml. I need to do
> > some work on this yet (binaries, manpages and emacs/latex stuff are
> > not
> > up to it), but you can find preliminary packages in my
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml repository. once the
> > mini-freeze
> > is over, and the current (-15) ocaml packages have entered testing, i
> > will upload it. Then, when it has been sucessfully rebuilt on all
> > arches, i will upload ocaml 3.06-16, as a wrapper package depending on
> > ocaml-3.06-1. I don't intent to provide wrappers for ocaml-base or
> > ocaml-source. This is similar of how gcc does it, so i think it is ok
> > for us also.
>
> Stephano, if you read me, please try to convince Sven that it
> is very ugly and hackish.
Huh ???
I thought we just agreed on that is the way to go a few days ago ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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