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

[Shayan Doust]

Hello Andreas,

This may just be our only option. I've looked into ways with getting in
touch with the author of [1] and I cannot find any ways as even github
issues is disabled.

> 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.

I'll run a diff between the Debian packaged 12-068 and the fork,
assuming that nothing substantial has changed it might end up being easy
with incorporating this as a patch. I assume if there has been
substantial changes between versions, maybe different components for the
OCaml support can be nitpicked and made into a patch, that is if other
components do not break within the new version of mcl if the patch is
applied.

I'll have a look at the mcl clone[1] shortly and I'll see what I can
accomplish with the limited options we have.

Kind regards,
Shayan Doust

On 01/06/2020 14:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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