Bug#802919: unison: synchronization incompatibility when built with Ocaml versions pre/post-4.02
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Conrad Hughes wrote:
> I'm unfamiliar with how the Debian release process works internally, and
> minimising the work involved in packaging unison is of course essential
> — you're already saving all Debian users a huge amount of work by
> packaging it, so thank you for that.
>
> At the moment because you're building with ocaml-4.01, the published
> unison is backwards compatible but not forwards compatible; can you
> continue to build unison with 4.01 now that Debian's on ocaml-4.02, or
> is that going to become difficult as well?
The problem is that any software used to build packages in a
distribution (sid, in this case) must also be in the distribution.
Hence, providing builds of unison produced with different ocaml
versions implies having packages for different ocaml versions
in sid.
-Ralf.
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