Hello, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:44:07PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:20:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I actually maintain it, and many of my other packages, with tla/Arch. > > > It's > > > in my personal repository over at arch.debian.org. Thanks for the > > > offer, though. > > Well, this means there are some ocaml related packages who are then in a > > separate repository than the rest of the ocaml packages. I wonder if > > this is a good thing. > > Yes, it is, or at least is not a bad thing. pkg-ocaml-maint is a > repository just for collectively maintained packages or for maintainers > that wants someone else to work on those packages. > > I've many packages on my laptop which are not on pkg-ocaml-maint and > that's definitely not a problem. The same applies to John's package IMO. > > In the past I used to keep those packages also on pkg-ocaml-maint, but > this turned out to be a problem due to syncing issues. >
Well, i think you know my point of view... I think it is better to have a main repository for all debian ocaml packages : - if a problem arise in one package, that you need help from another DD, it is the best way to share effort ( i have some experienced syncing with Mr Edward -- was really easy ). - if you are away, that some of us need to do some special things... it is better to have one working version ( for example i am used to inject watch file in debian/... I can do it on packages that doesn't belong to me, without the need to call every maintainer to say : hey it would be a good idea to do this or that ). - it permits to hijack some package ( like the thing i will do next week : hijacking numerix ). But i don't want to run a flameware, you can do what you want... I have just one question : Which are the packages that are in pkg-ocaml-maint but you don't maintain here anymore ? ( just to remove them ) And optionally : What difficulties have you regarding svn ? ( at the beginning i think you were a pro pkg-ocaml-maint ) > > Would it be possible for you to setup a tla -> svn mirroring or > > something such ? > > This would be great, but only if John is willing to have someone also > working on his packages, otherwise it's completely useless. > > > Or at least add a directory in the svn repository, and have a README > > in there with instructions on how to access your archive ? > > Why? Users have "apt-get source" and this is enough IMO. > No, i think it is a good idea to have a list of ocaml related package... Just to know which ocaml related software are around.... Kind regard Sylvain LE GALL