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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ralf,

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > in the Debian Med Covid-19 sprint we have a set of packages that can be
> > used to help researching the disease.  To this set of packages belongs
> > pplacer which I injected into Salsa[1].  I admit I never packaged
> > software written in ocaml and my initial attempt was probably weak.  It
> > ends with:
> 
> I had a look at this, but without much success. It seems that this
> software is a bit out of date and needs updating to current versions
> of libraries and the build tools.

Thanks a lot for having a look.

> I do not know much about ocamlbuild, but to me it looks as if the author was
> trying to do crazy stuff, like generating ocamlbuild configuration
> lines for all installed ocamlfind packages *installed on the system*
> (ocamlfind is an ocaml helper tool, it has its own notion of packages).
> I tried to patch the find_packages function by setting its result to
> a fixed list ["batteries"; "csv"] but then ran into a typing error
> when using the csv ocaml library. The software seems to depend on
> an old version of that library (1.2.2, according to
> opam-requirements.txt) while the current version of that library in
> debian is 2.4.

Would you mind providing a patch (via merge request or even git
format-patch attached to some e-mail)?  Even if you say you was not
successful it might be worth keeping your investigations in code
rather than in an e-mail text.
 
> Sorry. Maybe someone else on the ocaml-team can help ?

That would be really great since I have absolutely no idea what to do.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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