On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 15:00 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > On 06/07/2018 03:15, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > > > with extra unfriendly debug messages (hey, look at those in the > > > github > > > bug tracker, the ones we wanted to get rid of). > > > > > > I thought I'd mention the possibly surprising outcome for people > > > not > > > following debian-release@ closely. > > > > Also, that seems to completely invalidate the on-disk cache, which > > is > > likely the reason why the first run with an upgraded version (on > > either > > side, by the way) can take several (dozens of) minutes instead of a > > couple of seconds. > > Indeed. Care must be taken at each upgrade of Unison, I think Unison > users are aware of that. This is not specific to Debian. What was > specific to Debian was the situation of Unison compiled with a > version > of OCaml different from the one that is being distributed alongside, > which this binNMU is meant to fix. > > > It might have been a good idea to mention that in the binNMU > > request. It > > might also be a good idea to document those consequences in some > > way. > > Sorry. Where would be a good place to document this, now?
If it had been noticed earlier, I'd have suggested a source upload with a NEWS file explaining the issues. We /could/ add a note to the point release announcement mail, although that's a fairly unusual occurrence for an individual package. Regards, Adam
