Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

2010-08-24 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le mardi 24 août 2010 03:20:55, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit : > But I think the problem will remain as long as their won't be an > official Ubuntu developpers attached to OCaml packages. Some people are > already doing a great share of this job though (like D. Mentre ;-) I agree with this. I am glad

Re: debian and upstream (was: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy)

2010-08-24 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
I cross-post this thread to debian-proje...@l.d.o. As Ralf Treinen said, this is a general question rather than an OCaml specific question. Summary: Ralf Treinen is reviewing the OCaml packaging policy and we discussed a point about adding features to upstream package. We would like to share this

Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

2010-08-24 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, On 24-08-2010, David MENTRE wrote: > 2010/8/23 Ralf Treinen : >> PS: I just looked up the bug report, which reveals what distro the bug >> reporter is using. > > Ubuntu. > Nevermind, the bug report was aggressive be it from Ubuntu or Debian user. >> He rather should complain to his dist

Re: debian and upstream (was: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy)

2010-08-24 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:19:21PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 23/08/2010 11:13, Ralf Treinen a écrit : > Whenever you patch the source, IMHO, you limit the patch to: > - fix the build system to make it compile on Debian (source -> binary > package, new OCaml version) >

Re: debian and ubuntu (was: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy)

2010-08-24 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:16:13AM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > > He rather should complain to his distro when they > > are just copying our stuff and then, on top of it, get it wrong (as I > > deduce from the fact that he could not rebuild his package). > > There are no OCaml developers