Hi, >> The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm >> not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more. >> Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with >> previous Debian releases, but another change in OCaml 4.02 makes it >> incompatible anyway (both communicating unisons need to be compiled with >> the same version of OCaml in practice, which won't be the case any more >> when one side is Debian stable, and the other Debian testing). IMHO, >> that's a design flaw in Unison that cannot be easily fixed. >> > > A possible way out for stable (and old-stable) users could be to use 2.48 > from backports, when 2.48 will be packaged and migrated to testing.
The backport is indeed a nice way out of this, the rebuild is straightforward (only tried for amd64). http://sousmonlit.zincube.net/~niol/apt/pool/main/u/unison/unison_2.48.3-1~bpo80+1.dsc This should be integrated in the backports.d.o repositories. Alex