Hi, Le dimanche 16 juin 2024 à 07:36 +0200, Stéphane Glondu a écrit : > Source: ocaml > Severity: normal > User: debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: ocaml-5.2.0-transition > > Hi all, > > As you may have seen from my recent commits and uploads, I've started > to prepare the transition of OCaml from the version currently in > unstable, 4.14.1, to 5.2.0.
Yes, thanks! > The 5.x series feature a rewrite of significant parts of the runtime > to support multicore and effects. > > I've uploaded 5.2.0-1~exp1 to experimental: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ocaml&suite=experimental&compact=compact > > It FTBFS on armel, m68k and ppc64 (and has not yet been built on > alpha and hurd-amd64): > - for armel, I've submitted a bug report upstream: > https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/13234 > - for ppc64, the failure is due to ppc64 not being a native arch any > more > - I have not yet investigated the other failures > > I've rebuilt all (relevant) packages with this new version; the > results are available at the following address: > > http://ocaml.debian.net/transitions/ocaml-5.2.0/ > > In particular, there are currently 117 (out of 390) missing packages, > mostly because of FTBFS (or exhaustion of allocated resources). A > graphical visualisation of the situation can be seen at: > > http://ocaml.debian.net/transitions/ocaml-5.2.0/missing.pdf > Impressive! > I'm now asking for help from other maintainers to improve the > situation... I've identified 3 big clusters: > - camlp4/ocamlnet: I will have a look in the next weeks . > - elpi/ssreflect: Julien, can you have a look? Yes. > - liquidsoap: Kyle, can you have a look? . > Of course, any extra help is welcome. > > I'm opening a bug report to keep track of this matter. Good. Cheers, JP
