Hi Stéphane, Thank you for your response. I like the idea behind your patch, but unfortunately the side effects are very serious. Please consider how this situation affects developers unaffiliated with Debian:
1. As a non-Debian developer, why should I not use -custom? It's not deprecated, and I cannot find any (OCaml) documentation saying not to use it. I've read over the threads between you and Xavier, and I understand there are better mechanisms than -custom, but I only know about this after spending hours of work trying to figure out why ocamldebug did not work. Also, Xavier has specifically stated that -custom is *not* deprecated. 2. Debugging of non-Debian ocaml packages (which might use -custom) is broken. This is a serious problem, which has wasted at least ten hours of my time. In my opinion, this should really be fixed; it's a large behavior change to make it the default. At the *very* least it should be clearly documented. This is not even mentioned in README.Debian. 3. As a developer, I should not need to incorporate Debian specific hacks into my project, such as using OCAML_COMPAT. If Debian needs to change or break the behavior of standard, open source tools, the Debian scripts should be changed to opt-in to these features, not the other way around. I really think the state of this patch in Debian could be improved, by (in order of decreasing preference) 1) fixing the patch so ocamlrun and ocamldebug work, 2) making the patch opt-in for Debian packages only, 3) documenting the side effects of the patch. I am even willing to help with a patch for the first solution, if there is interest. Thanks, Ed On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> wrote: > Le 23/06/2012 00:04, Ed Schwartz a écrit : >>>> Why do you use -custom if your executable works with plain ocamlrun? >> >> The Makefile that we use (https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/ocaml-makefile) >> uses -custom by default. Several libraries we link to also use >> -custom. >> >>> See /usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian. >> >> Interesting... is the patch supposed to be compatible with ocamlrun >> and ocamldebug? > > No. If you need the upstream behaviour, use the OCAML_COMPAT environment > variable. And keep in mind that -custom should be avoided anyway. > > > Cheers, > > -- > Stéphane > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
