On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:05:02 +0100 Stéphane Glondu wrote:

> Evgeni Golov a écrit :
> > Did you also remove the binary from the .orig.tar.gz? We don't have the
> > source for it...
> 
> No, I didn't. Even though the source is not technically available (in
> the archive, today), there is an advertised way to rebuild it with only
> free tools... IMHO, it is not the same issue as all the recent firmware
> fuss. Besides, we do not use this binary any more. For Lenny, it didn't
> seem worth to me to repackage the upstream tarball.

I'm not a good legal boy, but you're prolly correct that it can be in
the source tarball for now. What do the others think?

> BTW, there are many things that shouldn't be in the .orig.tar.gz (such
> as CVS directories, for a start)... For future releases, it might be
> relevant to repackage the upstream tarball.

Yupp, but thats a different issue, not relevant here and now :)

> > And for really closing 510919: could either ocaml-nox or omake provide
> > a ocamldep-omake symlink, pointing to ocamldep? Just to make sure we
> > (or actually you :P) don't break any user-scripts.
> 
> This sounds like a dirty visible hack to me, I don't agree with this
> proposal. Are there so many people hard-coding ocamldep-omake in their
> scripts? Doesn't it sound reasonable to force people to update their
> scripts now?

Dunno if there are people hardcoding it, I don't do any ocaml stuff.
But you should consider adding a debian/NEWS file, saying
ocamldep-omake is gone now, so users notice this fact on upgrade and
not when their stuff is failing.

Regards
Evgeni

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