On 17 March 2024 14:30:01 GMT+01:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ocamlnet [2]: > >Broken for close to 1 year due to not being compatible with repo's >ocaml 5, first published in May 2023. > >Upstream seems to be abandoned (developer only attends to their other >projects). > >There has been a work-in-progress, partially viable port to ocaml 5, >contributed to upstream in the form of a merge request 1.5 years ago, >but it has been abandoned and ignored since. [a] > >That unfinished patch does not make this buildable. Also, now the code >does not support the current gnutls, needed for https support in this >library. > >Downstream dependents have either moved on to other solutions, or got >discontinued 3+ years ago. (All AUR reverse dependencies have been >submitted for deletion.) > >I think it's best to delete this package. > >[a]: https://gitlab.com/gerdstolpmann/lib- >ocamlnet3/-/merge_requests/21 > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ocamlnet/
The last package change is ill-conceived. The build stays broken. A package cannot depend on both 'ocaml' (v5) and 'ocaml4', as they conflict with each other. Still not useful to keep this library that is EOL for 3+ years.
