On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:43:54PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > This bug is currently present in sarge.
No, it is not. Versions of polygen in sarge works correctly with the
ocaml version in sarge (just tried on an up-to-date testing machine).
> > More exactly, there are at least two cases where this bug can cause
> > breakage:
Thus, if I understand correctly, you're saying that this _can_ be a bug
if one of the two happens, am I wrong? If not, this bug should not be
open in the BTS.
> > 1. If someone using testing upgrades to the unstable ocaml
If she do it via apt-pinning this is not an issue for the BTS: you get
packages from unstable, you call for trouble. If not, how should she get
the unstable ocaml?
> > 2. if the ocaml transition makes it into testing and for any reason
> >polygen will not enter testing at the same time, polygen in testing
> >will be broken
Here there is an issue indeed. The polygen version currently in testing
doesn't adhere to the debian ocaml policy which require dependency on
ocaml-base-nox-, but rather depends only on ocaml-base-nox.
Last polygen version uploaded by Enrico to unstable has the correct
dependency.
Thus, theorically, it is possible that the ocaml transition makes it
into testing and polygen not. If that happens, then polygen will break.
Still, that case is rather unlikely since all ocaml packages should
enter testing at once and some of them are still being uploaded these
days. Unstable's polygen can't enter testing before of them (due to the
ocaml-base-nox-3.08.3 dependency), but since it has already been
uploaded it will enter testing in the same run of the testing scripts as
all the other ocaml packages.
That said, I still see no reason to have this bug open in the BTS: at
the moment we have no problem with polygen in sarge.
Cheers.
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