[Debian-med-packaging] mcl 22-282

[Stijn van Dongen]

Hi Andreas,

when I asked they were too busy unfortunately. Sorry for not mentioning
this earlier. I may ask again, but this is still quite an uncertain avenue.

Best wishes,
Stijn


On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:47 PM Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> do you see any chance to bring the OCaml patch soon.  Debian is freezing
> at 12.2. and we need some preparation to get things back.
>
> Kind regards
>     Andreas.
>
> Am Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 12:03:00PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > Hi Stijn,
> >
> > Am Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 10:26:28AM +0000 schrieb Stijn van Dongen:
> > > > I admit if it would be contained upstream and thus we have the good
> > > > feeling that it is supposed to work with latest mcl this would be
> > > > helpful.  There is no need to hurry, thought, since we solved the
> > > > issue with a copy of the old version.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's basically what I would do, so it should be fine. The exchange
> > > formats for mcl are very stable,
> > > and this is the only thing that mclblastline really needs.
> >
> > Thanks for confirming.
> >
> > > > I admit we have way more severe problems with loosing the OCaml patch
> > > > we included in version 14.  This has three reverse depends we lost
> > > > now and since we have nobody with knowledge in OCaml we have no idea
> > > > how to solve this.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I know someone who has some interest in OCaml, I'll drop them a line
> on the
> > > off-chance.
> >
> > This would be really great.  Please point him to the latest patch at
> >
> >
> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl/-/blob/master/debian/patches/OCamlSupport.patch
> >
> > which applies to MCL 14.  The original patch that can be found at Github
> > applies to an older version of MCL.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
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