Status of llvm-toolchain-3.8?

[Stéphane Glondu]

On 30/10/2017 10:39, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
>>> Is there any plans to fix llvm-toolchain-3.8?
>>
>> I wish we could removed it but it is far from ready (we were blocked by
>> the ocaml transition but I dropped the ocaml support to mitigate that)
>> I will try to fix that in the next few days.
>> Sorry about that
> 
> I saw that you removed the OCaml bindings (libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev) from 
> llvm-toolchain-3.8, but there is still libllvm-ocaml-dev (from 
> llvm-defaults) that depends on libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev.
> 
> I think you need to remove libllvm-ocaml-dev from llvm-defaults to 
> disentangle LLVM and OCaml.

llvm-toolchain-3.8 FTBFS on armel and armhf, so it cannot migrate to 
testing. This situation blocks ocaml.

My attempts to find a solution to this were not very satisfactory... I 
think that changing llvm-defaults meta-packages to llvm > 3.8 (a version 
that does not FTBFS, so >= 4.0) can help.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane