On 2025-06-14 12:38:54 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Control: block -1 by 1107773 > > Hi Stéphane, > > On 13-06-2025 10:47, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > An unforeseen and unfortunate consequence is the change of the ABI hash > > of libstdlib-ocaml-dev on (at least) amd64. > > > And a FTBFS on ppc64el (filed under #1107773). > > > With my current state of (non-)understanding, the easiest way out of > > this is to binNMU all these packages and then let them in testing. > > > > What do you think? > > > At this stage of the freeze, I'm thinking that it may be better to leave the > version of ocaml that we have in trixie be the one we ship. Then we'd need > to hope that's not going to bite us in unstable. > > If I understand you correctly, reverting wouldn't help to fix the situation > in unstable, right? Thinking about it more, what does this mean for trixie? > When one would rebuild (even without changes) in trixie, are things going to > be different and/or incompatible?
Reverting doesn't help. Also rebuilding ocaml in trixie changes the hash rendering the reverse dependencies uninstallable. We will probably want to rebuild and unblock everthing, but ocaml first needs to be fixed on ppc64el. Otherwise we'll have to do that at some point when anything in the ocaml landscape changes in trixie. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
