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

[Shayan Doust]

Hello Andreas,

Another quick email before I disappear for the day.

I've ran a diff and generated a patch between the plain 12-068 version
(I cannot find its source on salsa so I just downloaded this tarball
from the author's website but that shouldn't make any difference) and
the mcl clone.

~7,000 lines in the patch all featuring new files and its contents
regarding OCaml support but I will experiment tomorrow and see how
cleanly and effectively I can apply this patch over the newer Debian
packaged mcl.

Kind regards,
Shayan Doust

On 01/06/2020 16:22, Shayan Doust wrote:
> 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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