[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#710650: Bug#718767: transition: ocaml 4.00.1

[Jon Ludlam]

On 10/09/13 14:09, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 03:17 PM, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
>> Le 06/09/2013 10:14, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
>>> I wrote it many time to many people. Please don't just read 1.6 as "new
>>> upstream release" for XCP. That's unfortunately not the way it works.
>>> Upstream version for Debian and the one they do for CentOS are
>>> different, and just using upstream 1.6 doesn't cut it. It needs to be
>>> ported to Debian, and that's far from a trivial work (as Michael Tokarev
>>> wrote, it's not "just replacing /usr/libexec/ into /usr/lib/ and the like").
>> That is not the way it should work. Upstream version should not be
>> specific to either Debian or CentOS. There should be only one version,
>> and it is the job of each distribution (yours, here) to do the
>> specialization work.
> Well, I agree, and upstream agrees as well. There's an ongoing work to
> have this happen.
>

Certainly we do :-)

There is indeed ongoing work, but it's not yet in a state to be able to 
be uploaded. However, fixing the xenguest compile problem looks fairly 
straightforward - I can try and provide a patch for that today. Would 
that help?

As for becoming more upstream-friendly, there are now several of us 
working to make that happen. Euan Harris is working hard on actually 
creating packages from this work, though the shape of these packages is 
quite different from that of the old-style 1.3.2 packages. We should 
start a conversation on pkg-xen-devel to make sure what he's doing is 
acceptable to you guys.

Jon