[Debian-med-packaging] mcl 22-282

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi all,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 06:53:01AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Am Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:49:58PM +0000 schrieb Stijn van Dongen:
> > 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.
> 
> Its your choice what might be more promising.  I just wanted to make
> sure involved people will know our schedule.  Even if we might miss
> the freeze date the OCaml patch is extremely helpful even later.

I tried to find out which are the three mcl reverse depends we now lost, but
failed.  Andreas: do you happen to know which packages these are?

Thanks, Bye,

Joost




Andreas:
> Stijn:
> > Andreas:
> > > 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