Re: Bug#498138: check for deprecated OCaml -custom linked executable

2009-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
d to use that bug to track the addition of this sort of module system. What do the other Lintian maintainers think about this? One nice property of a check-based module system is that a module can then drop in additional collection scripts as needed without having to do anythin

Re: Bug#528367: RFC: various Lintian checks for OCaml packages

2009-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
severity of one tag: I downgraded ocaml-stray-cmo from normal to minor on the grounds that the long tag description says that the file is just useless, not actually harmful, which makes it a minor bug instead of a normal bug. Let me know if that's not correct. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debi

Re: Bug#528367: RFC: various Lintian checks for OCaml packages

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ivial C code with functions that return a constant int or something) and packs some of them into *.a files would be able to test all of these tags. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ocaml-maint-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Bug#498138: check for deprecated OCaml -custom linked executable

2009-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
that symlinks the unpack and collection directories and then runs a set of custom checks that do just the Ocaml-specific stuff, and run both regular Lintian and your wrapper on Ocaml packages. I'm not sure if I really like that idea, though -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Bug#498138: check for deprecated OCaml -custom linked executable

2008-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
nt dependencies. It also constrains maintenance in the future, since lintian.d.o is on a stable system. So yes, I think pure Perl would be better. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#476417: Bug#495431: Bogus missing-dep-for-interpreter errors with ocamlrun

2008-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
t;. I tried to do a search at the time to figure out what was going on and that was the result that I got at the time, but it's entirely possible that I botched the search. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema