On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:03:08PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 17:54:42 +0000, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > Two questions: > > - Did you try the debian-hppa list whether there are hppa porters > > willing to work on this? When dealing with arch-specific issues, they > > should at least be informed so that they can make a choice between > > dropping support in this way for ocaml, or fixing the support where > > the package maintainers and upstream are unable and/or unwilling to do > > so. > > I didn't do that, because I thought that having this deb removed was > necessary for ocaml to go in etch, and because ocaml was keeping kde out > of etch. I'll do so now, if you think that's necessary.
Please do, porters should at least be informed, and get a chance to comment, and to fix the issue at hand. > > - What to do with packages like slat and confluence, that seem to fail > > to build for hppa with this package removed? I think they should be > > transitioned to alternatives, or otherwise also for those packages, > > the hppa support should be dropped. This should happen at the same > > time in any case, I do not intend to whack-a-mole multiple times in > > the future for reverse-(build)-dependendencies of this package. > > I don't think these packages should build-depend on > ocaml-native-compilers. The ocaml-nox package provides compilers on all > debian architectures, and should be used instead IMO. The compilation > speed increase provided by the native compilers is probably not > necessary. (As a side note, I don't understand why slat build-depends on > ocaml at all.) Please file bugs on those packages, then. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
