[Debian-med-packaging] [covid-19] Help for ocaml package needed

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 04:07:10PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> > I assume the mcl development is really stalled.  But I'd love to see a
> > discussion between upstream and the maintainer of the 12-068 fork
> > whether they could settle with a common code base which also includes
> > the OCaml support.  May be the first step could be to open an issue
> > at [1] and ask for updating the code base?
> 
> I will open an issue with [1] and see if I can suggest and co-ordinate
> for a common code base, that of the latest mcl release that's been packaged.

May be there is another option:  Somehow the OCaml support could be
obtained by a diff between the Debian packaged version 12-068 and the
fork[1].  No idea how large this diff might be but may be it might apply
more or less cleanly to the latest Debian packaged version as a quilt
patch.  This could give us OCaml support to the latest upstream version.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/fhcrc/mcl

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